Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1996, 2:34 PM EST for Johnston County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 8, 1996, 2:34 PM EST (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 1996, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnston County, NC, Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Clayton, NC | |
| Nov 8, 2:55 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Raleigh, 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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, Nov 8, 10:55 AM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
NCZALL-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1055 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE FROM STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RHJ
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 11:03 AM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
NCZALL-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1055 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE FROM STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RHJ
Local storm report, Nov 8, 2:06 PM EST, 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 7:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 35 min |
| Nov 8, 1:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 37 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.