Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1998, 9:59 AM EST for Bertie County, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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
- Jan 8, 1998, 9:59 AM EST (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bertie County, NC, Hertford County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 10:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor, NC | Few trees down throughout the county, including in Republican and Woodard. |
| Jan 8, 10:28 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Murfreesboro, NC | Few trees down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 492 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 10:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, Sussex | 33 min |
| Jan 8, 10:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates | 45 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.