Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 6:53 PM EST for Durham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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
- Mar 5, 1997, 6:53 PM EST (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Durham County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 7:20 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Durham, NC | |
| Mar 5, 7:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Durham, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 052356 RRA SVRRDU NCC063-060030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 653 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 ...DURHAM COUNTY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN DURHAM COUNTY THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WILL REACH DURHAM BETWEEN 715 AND 730 PM. 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 SMA&LL ROOM, AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 6:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 44 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.