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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 5, 1997Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 10:14 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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: Jul 5, 1997, 10:14 PM EDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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-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: 1084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

324 
WUUS1 KRDU 060215 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC167-060300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1014 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...STANLY COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST
STANLY COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING HAIL. THE STORMS
ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS SHOULD BE A FEW
MILES DUE SOUTH OF ALBEMARLE BY 1035 PM.

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, 5:28 PM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
528 PM EDT SAT JUL 05 1997

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

0500 PM    ROCKINGHAM                NC   1.5 INCH HAIL
07/05/97   RICHMOND                       PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED CO. SHERRIF

0505 PM    HAMLET                    NC   1.5 INCH HAIL
07/05/97   RICHMOND                       PING PONG BALL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY POLICE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	41 min
Jul 5, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	50 min
Jul 5, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	50 min
Jul 5, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	45 min
Jul 5, 10:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett	37 min
Jul 5, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	31 min
Jul 6, 12:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.