Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 11:36 PM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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, 11:36 PM EDT (03:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guilford County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 10 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 140339 RRA SVRRDU NCC081-140415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1136 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...GUILFORD COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BRIGHTWOOD...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENSBORO...MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS APPROACHING THE OAK RIDGE AREA FROM THE WEST IN NORTHWEST GUILFORD COUNTY AND ALSO MOVING EAST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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, 51 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
BADGETTLocal storm report, Jun 13, 10:47 PM EDT, 49 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
BADGETTLocal storm report, Jun 13, 11:08 PM EDT, 28 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.
BADGETTLocal storm report, Jun 13, 11:10 PM EDT, 26 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.
BADGETTThe 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, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 12:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.