Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 8:03 PM EDT for Chatham County, Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 8:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chatham County, NC, Orange County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Chapel Hill, NC | |
| Jun 2, 8:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Siler City, NC | A supercell storm moved southeast across central and eastern Chatham county. Areas near Pittsboro to Goldston received hail up to 1 inch in diameter and strong winds that uprooted trees. |
| Jun 2, 8:25 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Pittsboro, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 16.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
977 WUUS1 KRDU 030004 RRA SVRRDU NCC037-135-030050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 803 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHATHAM COUNTY SOUTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY * UNTIL 850 PM EDT * AT 803 PM EDT ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SUTPHIN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TEER WHITE CROSS GUM SPRINGS PITTSBORO BYNUM GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. RAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 17 min |
| Jun 3, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 35 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.