Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 1, 1997Edgecombe County, Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 1, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Wilson County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 1, 6:00 PM EDTTornado F0Wilson, NC
May 1, 6:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60Macclesfield, 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
May 1, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1997-05-01Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1997-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 1, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson36 min
May 1, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin31 min
May 1, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph41 min
May 1, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham27 min
May 1, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake46 min
May 1, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham28 min
May 1, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin33 min
May 1, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph35 min
May 1, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash, Wake34 min
May 1, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wilson31 min
May 1, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWilson30 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.