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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 15, 1996Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1996, 6:01 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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: Apr 15, 1996, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wake County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 15, 6:08 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Wendell, NC
Apr 15, 6:25 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Wendell, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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

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

Local storm report, Apr 15, 3:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 15, 3:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 15, 4:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

NCZ008>011-024>028-040>043-076>078-086-088-152130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
428 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996

AT 425 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...EXTENDING FROM
NASH...FRANKLIN...AND NORTHERN WAKE COUNTIES SOUTH TO HOKE AND
CUMBERLAND COUNITES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST
AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER SHOU.LD THE STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RAN

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

NCZ008>011-024>028-040>043-076>078-086-088-089-152130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED CODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
428 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996

AT 425 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...EXTENDING FROM
NASH...FRANKLIN...AND NORTHERN WAKE COUNTIES SOUTH TO HOKE AND
CUMBERLAND COUNITES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST
AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL
HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIO4NS AND SEEK SHELTER SHOULD THE STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RAN

Local storm report, Apr 15, 5:16 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
512 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996

TIME       COUNTY/CITY  STATE    EVENT/REMARKS

130-200PM  CUMBERLAND   NC       STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL BARNS WITH\
           NEAR LINDEN           ROOFS REMOVED.

KRC

Local storm report, Apr 15, 5:23 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
517 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996

TIME       COUNTY/CITY  STATE    EVENT/REMARKS

450 PM     WAKE CNTY NR          FROM CTY 911... SEVERAL TREES DOWN WITHn
           NEW HILL     NC       SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.

455 PM     WAKE CNTY    NC       SKYWARN... ONE HOUSE DAMAGED, POWER LINES
                                 DOWN, NEAR SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR PWR PLANT.

KRC

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, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.