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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 26, 1998Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 9:49 PM EDT for Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 16 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, 9:49 PM EDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1998, 10:05 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Randolph County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 9:55 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Ramseur, 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, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 26, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1354 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 270149 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC151-270205-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
949 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS EXTENDED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY

* UNTIL 1005 PM EDT

* AT 950 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF SEAGROVE... MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.


* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AREAS SOUTH OF COLERIDGE AND EAST OF SEAGROVE

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF 2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

RFG

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, 8:59 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
859 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0757 PM    LEWISVILLE                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98   FORSYTH                        DIME SIZE HAIL IN
                                          LEWISVILLE

0834 PM    WALLBURG                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/98   DAVIDSON                       TWELVE INCH FIR TREE
                                          REPORTED DOWN IN WALLBURG

0834 PM    LEXINGTON                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/98   DAVIDSON                       TREES DOWN ON GUM TREE
                                          ROAD IN NORTHERN DAVISON
                                          COUNTY NORTH OF LEXINGTON

Local storm report, May 26, 9:39 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
939 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    WINSTON SALEM             NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/98   FORSYTH                        MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED ON
                                          BARNS ROAD AND SOUTHERN
                                          MAIN...SOUTH OF WINSTON
                                          SALEM...JUST NORTH OF THE
                                          DAVIDSON COUNTY LINE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 8:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	32 min
May 26, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	34 min
May 26, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	34 min
May 26, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	47 min
May 26, 10:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Moore	15 min
May 26, 10:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Lee	31 min
May 26, 10:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	29 min
May 26, 11:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	23 min
May 26, 11:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	32 min
May 26, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	27 min
May 27, 12:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 min
May 27, 12:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	36 min
May 27, 4:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	30 min
May 27, 5:18 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	32 min
May 27, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	34 min
May 27, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	32 min
May 27, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	32 min
May 27, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	35 min
May 27, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	27 min
May 27, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	37 min
May 27, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond	34 min
May 27, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	35 min
May 27, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	35 min
May 27, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	34 min
May 27, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery	35 min
May 27, 7:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Richmond	32 min
May 27, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998 Every 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.