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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 3, 1998Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 6:52 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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 3, 1998, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Nash County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Castalia, NC
Jun 3, 7:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Rocky Mt Wilson Arpt, 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, 6:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -513 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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, Jun 3, 5:57 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
557 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998

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

0549 PM                              NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98   PERSON                         GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY SKYWARN ON
                                          NC49 N ON GRANVILLE/PERSON
                                          COUNTY LINE

0550 PM                              NC   58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/03/98   PERSON                         TREES DOWN ON EPHESUS
                                          CHURCH RD ABOUT 5 MI N OF
                                          HYCO DAM

Local storm report, Jun 3, 6:39 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
639 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998

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

0631 PM    ASHEBORO                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/03/98   RANDOLPH                       POWER LINES AND TREES DOWN
                                          IN ASHEBORO...ROOF BLOWN
                                          OFF HOUSE UNDER
                                          CONSTRUCTION IN ROSEMAN.

0633 PM    OXFORD                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/03/98   GRANVILLE                      TREES DOWN IN
                                          OXFORD...POWER LINES DOWN
                                          6 MILES N OF ASHEBORO.
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

0635 PM    HENDERSON                 NC   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/03/98   VANCE                          HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED FIVE MILES SOUTH
                                          OF HENDERSON.

0637 PM    SILER CITY                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98   CHATHAM                        DIME SIZE HAIL IN SILER
                                          CITY.

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, 5:40 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, 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

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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.