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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 13, 1997Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 10:26 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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
Jun 13, 1997, 10:26 PM EDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 10:32 PM EDTHail 0.75Badin, NCDIME SIZE HAIL FELL IN BADIN AND ALBEMARLE.
Jun 13, 10:32 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50New London, NCTREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN NEW LONDON AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1193 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 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
1193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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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
Jun 13, 10:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMontgomery37 min
Jun 13, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth30 min
Jun 13, 11:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford39 min
Jun 14, 12:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHAlamance2 hr

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.