Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 97
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 5, 1997, 6:15 PM EST for 35 counties in North Carolina; 11 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1997, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1997, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Alamance County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Southampton County, VA
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 6:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 66 min |
| Mar 5, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 6:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 7:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 7:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 16 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 29 min |
| Mar 5, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 8:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 8:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Sussex | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 9:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 37 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 28 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1997Every 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.