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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 25, 1996Sampson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 12:24 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1996, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Sampson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1413 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 12:02 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
NOON EDT THU JUL 25 1996

THE NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK... A FEW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE EAST OF
THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY STALLED ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA FOR SEVERAL DAYS
WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND SURFACE HEATING TO
PRODUCE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ANCROSS MUCH OF THE
STATE. PERSONS IN NORTH CAROLINA EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD STAY
TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA THROUGHOUT THE DAY FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.

COOK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 12:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHGuilford2 hr
Jul 25, 6:51 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett39 min
Jul 25, 7:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHHarnett35 min
Jul 25, 7:40 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett35 min
Jul 25, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.