Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1998, 2:42 AM EST for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
- Jan 8, 1998, 2:42 AM EST (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 3:10 AM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davidson County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
211 WUUS1 KRDU 080743 RRA SVRRDU NCC057-080810- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 242 AM EST THU JAN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DAVIDSON COUNTY * UNTIL 310 AM EST * THIS STORM WILL AFFECT: LAKEVIEW LEXINGTON THOMASVILLE * NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ENTERING FROM ROWAN COUNTY...WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS THE COUNTY WITHIN THE HALF HOUR. THIS STORM IS MOVING AROUND 60 MPH TO THE NORTHEAST. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR SALISBURY IN ROWAN COUNTY. RA
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, Jan 7, 10:00 PM EST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-081200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1000 PM EST WED JAN 08 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA OVERNIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON TO SILER CITY TO ROCKINGHAM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. A WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE TAR HEEL STATE TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE AS MOISTURE CONTINUES TO FEED INTO THE STATE FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST. CONVECTION OVER GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AS IT MOVES INTO UNSTABLE AIR OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. JSJ/JBM ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMER^Y MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 10:45 PM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-081200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...CORRECTED FOR DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1045 PM EST WED JAN 07 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA OVERNIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON TO SILER CITY TO ROCKINGHAM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. A WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE TAR HEEL STATE TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE AS MOISTURE CONTINUES TO FEED INTO THE STATE FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST. CONVECTION OVER GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AS IT MOVES INTO UNSTABLE AIR OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. JSJ/JBM ********************************************************************* 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, Jan 7, 10:45 PM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-081200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...CORRECTED FOR DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1045 PM EST WED JAN 07 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA OVERNIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BURLINGTON TO SILER CITY TO ROCKINGHAM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. A WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS OVER THE TAR HEEL STATE TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE IS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE AS MOISTURE CONTINUES TO FEED INTO THE STATE FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST. CONVECTION OVER GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AS IT MOVES INTO UNSTABLE AIR OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER MIDNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. JSJ/JBM ********************************************************************* 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.