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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 15, 1998Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 1:06 AM EDT for Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 15, 1998, 1:06 AM EDT (05:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 1:40 AM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Randolph County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 1:30 AM EDTHail 0.88Sophia, 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
311 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 12:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth49 min
Jun 15, 12:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMontgomery34 min
Jun 15, 1:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson33 min
Jun 15, 1:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford35 min
Jun 15, 1:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Randolph49 min
Jun 15, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Wake36 min
Jun 15, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson46 min
Jun 15, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax36 min
Jun 15, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville32 min
Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.