Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 8:27 PM EDT for Chatham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1996, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chatham County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Goldston, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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, 6:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
NCZ010>017-026>028-030>032-043-102-260000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 644 PM EDT THU JUL 25 1996 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 849 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ANY COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT HAS MOVED INTO VIRGINIA. ALTHOUGH THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 42 min |
| Jul 25, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 26 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.