Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1997, 5:22 PM EDT for Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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 18, 1997, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Halifax County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 5:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Scotland Neck, NC | THE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE SCOTLAND NECK AREA. SOME TREES UP TO TWO FEET IN DIAMETER. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 182123 RRA SVRRDU NCC083-182200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 522 PM EDT FRI JUL 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN HALIFAX COUNTY AT 420 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN HALIFAX COUNTY IN AND AROUND SCOTLAND NECK. THE STORM HAS SHOWN LITTLE MOVEMENT IN THE PAST SEVERAL MINUTES...BUT IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT VERY SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. FREQUENT LIG4HTNING 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 18, 11:25 AM EDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-190000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1125 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 1997 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED ALTHOUGH ISOLATED STORMS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LINGER OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA INTO SATURDAY. AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE LOW AND MID 90S THIS AFTERNOON...THIS TROUGH WILL ACT A FOCUS FOR DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS ARE ALWAYS ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. GIH ********************************************************************* 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 18, 1:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-190000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1125 AM EDT FRI JUL 18 1997 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED ALTHOUGH ISOLATED STORMS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LINGER OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA INTO SATURDAY. AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE LOW AND MID 90S THIS AFTERNOON...THIS TROUGH WILL ACT A FOCUS FOR DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS ARE ALWAYS ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. GIH ********************************************************************* 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 32 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.