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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 13, 1997Forsyth County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 11:15 PM EDT for Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 1997, 11:15 PM EDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Forsyth County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 140318 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC067-140345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1115 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...FORSYTH COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER WESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY
WEST OF WINSTON-SALEM MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG
WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE LEWISVILLE AREA AT 1115 PM.
 
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.  SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO
EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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, Jun 13, 10:45 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1045 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

1032 PM    BADIN                     NC   0.75 HAIL REPORTED
06/13/97   STANLY                         IN BADIN AT 1032 PM.
                                          REPORTED BY CLT SKYWARN

1030 PM    NEW LONDON                NC   SEVERAL SMALL TREES DOWN
06/13/97   STANLY                         IN NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY.
                                          REPORTED BY DEPUTY SHERIFF

BADGETT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:47 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1045 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

1032 PM    BADIN                     NC   0.75 HAIL REPORTED
06/13/97   STANLY                         IN BADIN AT 1032 PM.
                                          REPORTED BY CLT SKYWARN

1030 PM    NEW LONDON                NC   SEVERAL SMALL TREES DOWN
06/13/97   STANLY                         IN NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY.
                                          REPORTED BY DEPUTY SHERIFF

BADGETT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 11:08 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1108 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

1100 PM    MONTGOMERY                NC   SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES
06/13/97   10 W TROY                      DUE TO SEVERAL TREES AND
                                          LIMBS DOWN.

BADGETT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 11:10 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1108 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

1100 PM    MONTGOMERY                NC   SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES
06/13/97   10 W TROY                      DUE TO SEVERAL TREES AND
                                          LIMBS DOWN.

BADGETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 10:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	34 min
Jun 13, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery	37 min
Jun 13, 11:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	39 min
Jun 14, 12:37 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Alamance	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.