Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 377

June 2, 199744 counties in North Carolina; Halifax County, City of Danville, Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 1997, 11:45 AM EDT for 44 counties in North Carolina; Halifax County, City of Danville, Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1997, 11:45 AM EDT (15:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 46 counties

Alamance County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, City of Danville, VA, Halifax County, VA

Warnings issued inside it

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	27 min
Jun 2, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lee	32 min
Jun 2, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	30 min
Jun 2, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lee	33 min
Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	43 min
Jun 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	29 min
Jun 2, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	33 min
Jun 2, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	49 min
Jun 2, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	35 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	43 min
Jun 2, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	40 min

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.