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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 24, 1996Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 4:22 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 24, 1996, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 4:30 PM EDTHail 1.75Fayetteville, 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, 8.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 386 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 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 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
386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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 24, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Guilford54 min
May 24, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham56 min
May 24, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph51 min
May 24, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLee50 min
May 24, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake28 min
May 24, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett45 min
May 24, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson44 min
May 24, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHStanly35 min
May 24, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland48 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.