Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 8:31 AM EDT for Anson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 10, 1998, 8:31 AM EDT (12:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anson County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 10, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-110000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 630 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL...OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE GREATEST SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GREENSBORO TO RALEIGH TO GOLDSBORO. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ORIENTED NORTHWEST-TO-SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA WILL HOLD FAIRLY STATIONARY TODAY AND TONIGHT. WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY... THE HEATING OF THE DAY WILL PROVIDE THE FUEL FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON... AND CONTINUING INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS... AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. OVER NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED BY 1130 AM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. HARTFIELD ********************************************************************* 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 t WAYNE WILSON
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-110000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 630 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL...OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE GREATEST SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GREENSBORO TO RALEIGH TO GOLDSBORO. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ORIENTED NORTHWEST-TO-SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA WILL HOLD FAIRLY STATIONARY TODAY AND TONIGHT. WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY... THE HEATING OF THE DAY WILL PROVIDE THE FUEL FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON... AND CONTINUING INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS... AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. OVER NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED BY 1130 AM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. HARTFIELD ********************************************************************* 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 t WAYNE WILSON
Local storm report, Jun 10, 8:31 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.