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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 5, 1997Person County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 6:46 PM EST for Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
Mar 5, 1997, 6:46 PM EST (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1997, 7:30 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Person County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 5, 7:00 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Roxboro Area, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 5, 6:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 1997-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1997-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 052348 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC145-060030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
646 PM EST WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...PERSON COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PERSON COUNTY
THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WILL REACH ROXBORO SHORTLY AFTER 7 PM.
THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED. IF YOU
ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER NOW!  GO TO THE CENTER
AND LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOUSE, IN A SMALL ROOM, AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 5:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth44 min
Mar 5, 5:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford41 min
Mar 5, 6:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford33 min
Mar 5, 6:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance37 min
Mar 5, 6:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange33 min
Mar 5, 6:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.