Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 4:23 AM EDT for Durham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 26, 1998, 4:23 AM EDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 4:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Durham County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:27 AM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Durham, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
079 WUUS1 KRDU 260825 RRA SVRRDU NCC063-260855- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 423 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DURHAM COUNTY * UNTIL 455 AM EDT * AT 425 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ONE MILE SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN DURHAM... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DURHAM AT 430 AM THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THERE ARE REPORTS OF GOLF BALL HAIL WITH THIS STORM. RLH
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 26, 3:25 AM EDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
325 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 AM GREENSBORO NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 GUILFORD REPORTED BY UNC GREENSBORO
POLICEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 30 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.