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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 5, 1997Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 12:35 AM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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: Jul 5, 1997, 12:35 AM EDT (04:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1997, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 5, 12:45 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Elm City, NC	TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 301 IN ELM CITY.

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
Jul 4, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 050436 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC195-050500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1235 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WILSON COUNTY
 
AT AT 1234 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM MOVING INTO WESTERN NASH
NEAR NC 581 AND I-95. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...APPROACHING
WILSON BY 1245 AM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM!  MOVE TO SAFETY IF THE STORM APPROACHES YOUR
AREA.

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, Jul 5, 12:05 AM EDT, 30 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1205 AM EDT SAT JUL 05 1997

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

1130 PM    DURHAM                    NC   1 INCH HAIL
07/04/97   DURHAM                         6 MILES N OF RDU AIRPORT
                                          IN DURHAM CO.

1135 PM    RALEIGH                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
07/04/97   WAKE                           I-540 AND LUMLEY ROAD -
                                          WAKE COUNTY

Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:06 AM EDT, 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1205 AM EDT SAT JUL 05 1997

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

1130 PM    DURHAM                    NC   1 INCH HAIL
07/04/97   DURHAM                         6 MILES N OF RDU AIRPORT
                                          IN DURHAM CO.

1135 PM    RALEIGH                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
07/04/97   WAKE      J                     I-540 AND LUMLEY ROAD -
                                          WAKE COUNTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Guilford	53 min
Jul 4, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	39 min
Jul 4, 11:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Wake	43 min
Jul 4, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	44 min
Jul 4, 11:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	46 min
Jul 5, 12:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	25 min
Jul 5, 12:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	54 min
Jul 5, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond	37 min
Jul 5, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond	20 min
Jul 5, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	37 min
Jul 5, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	30 min
Jul 5, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	38 min
Jul 5, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	22 min
Jul 5, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	26 min
Jul 5, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	34 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.