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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 27, 1996Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 7:10 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 27, 1996, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wake County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 7:19 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Wake Forest, 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, 11.2 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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 27, 7:09 PM EDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
709 PM EDT MON MAY 27 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0704 PM    BUNN      $                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/96   FRANKLIN                       IN TOWN OF DUNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	44 min
May 27, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	40 min
May 27, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	43 min
May 27, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	50 min
May 27, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	50 min
May 27, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	29 min
May 27, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	50 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.