Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1996, 12:48 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
- Apr 15, 1996, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1996, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nash County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Apr 15, 10:41 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
NCZ041-042-151545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1038 AM EDT MON APR 15 1996 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1035 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST HARNETT COUNTY INTO JOHNSTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND/OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JSJ
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 11:59 AM EDT, 49 minutes before
NCZ026-027-041-042-043-151700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1156 AM EDT MON APR 15 1996 AT 1155 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OUT OF EASTERN WAKE COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN JOHNSTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO FRANKLIN...NASH...AND WILSON COUNTIES. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND/OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JSJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 28 min |
| Apr 15, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.