Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 5:40 PM EDT for Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Person County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Bethel Hill, 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 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
453 WUUS1 KRDU 032142 RRA SVRRDU NCC145-032215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 540 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 540 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HYCO DAM ... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MCGEHEES MILL AROUND 545 PM BETHEL HILL AROUND 545 PM GENTRYS STORE AROUND 555 PM DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS JWC
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
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-030000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1155 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EARLY TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THE MAIN THREAT IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLNIA IS FROM STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. ALTHOUGH THE THREAT IS SLIGHT...THE GREATEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER IS NORTH OF A TARBORO-ROCKY MOUNT TO RALEIGH-DURHAM TO GREENSBORO-WINSTON-SALEM LINE BETWEEN 6 PM AND MIDNIGHT. HOT AIR LATE IN THE DAY WILL COLLIDE WITH A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT NEAR THE VIRGINIA BORDER. THE AIR ALOFT IS DRY...BUT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE TRIGGERED ALONG THE FRONT TOWARD SUNSET THIS EVENING. DOWNBURST WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL MAY BE NEEDED AFTER 600 PM THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO LATER TODAY FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RFG ********************************************************************* 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 49 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.