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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 11, 1996Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 3:46 PM EDT for Randolph 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
May 11, 1996, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Randolph County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 11, 3:50 PM EDTHail 1Randleman, NC
May 11, 3:50 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Randleman, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 232 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 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson25 min
May 11, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Nash33 min
May 11, 3:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHJohnston62 min
May 11, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham51 min
May 11, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange31 min
May 11, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Granville, Wake43 min
May 11, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett37 min
May 11, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Vance31 min
May 11, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWarren31 min
May 11, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wake43 min
May 11, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash37 min
May 11, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe37 min
May 11, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne31 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.