Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1997, 3:58 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 17, 1997, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Granville County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 171957 RRA SVRRDU NCC077-172030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 358 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...GRANVILLE COUNTY AT 358 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN GRANVILLE COUNTY NEAR BEREA ALONG HIGHWAY 158. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SOUTH. 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
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 11:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-180000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1140 AM EDT THU JUL 17 1997 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW BUT A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LINGER OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH FRIDAY. AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE LOW AND MID 90S THIS AFTERNOON...THIS TROUGH WILL ACT AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ALTHOUGH SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RA ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMERY MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 11:41 AM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-180000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1140 AM EDT THU JUL 17 1997 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW BUT A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LINGER OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH FRIDAY. AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE LOW AND MID 90S THIS AFTERNOON...THIS TROUGH WILL ACT AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ALTHOUGH SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RA ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMERY MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
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.