Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 23, 1998Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1998, 6:43 AM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
May 23, 1998, 6:43 AM EDT (10:43 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1998, 7:15 AM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Harnett County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 23, 6:45 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Anderson Creek, NCA barn was destroyed and several other farm buildings were damaged. Numerous trees were also uprooted, one of which fell on a car.
May 23, 6:50 AM EDTHail 0.88Olivia, NC

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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 6:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLee33 min
May 23, 7:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland47 min
May 23, 7:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson49 min
May 23, 10:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Granville46 min
May 23, 11:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash46 min
May 23, 11:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland49 min
May 23, 11:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston50 min
May 23, 12:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson31 min
May 23, 12:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne30 min
May 23, 12:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.