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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 6, 1996Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 7:59 PM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
May 6, 1996, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Harnett County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 6, 8:06 PM EDTHail 1Erwin, 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 142 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, May 6, 6:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
627 PM EDT MON MAY 06 1996

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
503  PM    GARLAND                   NC       NICKEL SIZED HAIL
           SAMPSON COUNTY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 9:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth44 min
May 5, 11:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash, Wilson40 min
May 6, 1:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWarren52 min
May 6, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland39 min
May 6, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson41 min
May 6, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson31 min
May 6, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.