Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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, 8:45 PM EDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnston County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 260047 SVRRDU NCC101-260130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 845 PM EDT THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...JOHNSTON COUNTY AT 840 PM JOHNSTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL FALLING IN FOUR OAKS. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELdY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. &
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 56 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, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 26 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.