Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 9:11 PM EDT for Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1998, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Halifax County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, 7:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
725 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 PM NC 1 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 NASH NEAR RWI AIRPORT SKYWARN
REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL
AND HEAVY DOWNBURSTLocal storm report, Jun 3, 7:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
733 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM SHARPSBURG NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 NASH AT 628 PM SKYWARN SPOTTER
INDICATED DIME SIZE HAIL
NEAR SHARPSBURG ON THE
NASH AND WILSON COUNTY
LINELocal storm report, Jun 3, 7:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
736 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0734 PM WILSON NC 1 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 WILSON SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
OUARTER SIZE HAIL 10 MI
EAST OF WILSONLocal storm report, Jun 3, 7:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
743 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM PINETOPS NC 1 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 EDGECOMBE SHERIFFS OFFICE @ 735Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
750 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0749 PM CEDAR GROVE NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 ORANGELocal storm report, Jun 3, 7:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
758 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM MACCLESFIELD NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 EDGECOMBE SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL JUST
SOUTH OF MACCLESFIELDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.