Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 5:17 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 23, 1998, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 6:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Wake Forest, 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 232117 RRA SVRRDU NCC183-232205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 517 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAKE COUNTY * UNTIL 605 PM EDT * AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LEESVILLE... MOVING EAST- SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BAYLEAF AROUND 520 PM EDT WAKE FOREST AROUND 530 PM EDT RALEIGH AROUND 530 PM EDT ZEBULON AROUND 545 PM EDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! JBM
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 23, 4:57 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
457 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM HILLSBOROUGH NC WIND DAMAGE
06/23/98 ORANGE HILLSBORO POLICE DEPT.
REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN IN NE PART OF COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 33 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.