Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1998, 7:08 AM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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
- May 23, 1998, 7:08 AM EDT (11:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1998, 7:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cumberland County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, May 23, 6:54 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
654 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 AM BENNETT NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/23/98 CHATHAM NICKEL SIZED HAIL REPORTED
JUST NORTH OF BENNETT IN
SW CHATHAM COUNTY
0650 AM OLIVIA NC 1 INCH HAIL
05/23/98 HARNETT NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED
HAIL REPORTED IN OLIVIASpecial weather statement, May 23, 7:00 AM EDT, 8 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-231515- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 700 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 1998 ..ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER MOST OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TODAY AND TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) A COLD FRONT LOCATED SOUTH OF THE STATE THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTH INTO THE STATE AS A WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH THE DAY. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEEDED BUT SPOTTERS SHOULD TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES FOR AN UPDATED SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 11 AM. RHJ ********************************************************************* 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, May 23, 7:00 AM EDT, 8 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-231515- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 700 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 1998 ..ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER MOST OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TODAY AND TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) A COLD FRONT LOCATED SOUTH OF THE STATE THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTH INTO THE STATE AS A WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH THE DAY. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEEDED BUT SPOTTERS SHOULD TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES FOR AN UPDATED SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WHICH WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 11 AM. RHJ ********************************************************************* 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 33 min |
| May 23, 6:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 32 min |
| May 23, 7:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 49 min |
| May 23, 10:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville | 46 min |
| May 23, 11:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 46 min |
| May 23, 11:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 49 min |
| May 23, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 50 min |
| May 23, 12:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 31 min |
| May 23, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 30 min |
| May 23, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.