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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 15, 1996Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1996, 5:21 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 152124
SVRRDU
NCC051-152200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
521 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CUMBERLAND COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHWEST CUMBERLAND COUNTY NEAR ROSLIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOTION WILL BRING THE STORM
THROUGH CENTRAL CUMBERLAND COUNTY NEAR FAYETTEVILLE DURING THE NEXT 30
MINUTES.
 
 
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIxALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.  SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO
EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	42 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, 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every 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.