Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 19, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1998, 9:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hoke County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 9:01 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Raeford, 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 200100 SVRRDU NCC093-200145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 900 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOKE COUNTY * UNTIL 950 PM EDT * AT 853 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF RAEFORD... MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNRDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ANTIOCH AND DUNDARRACH AROUND 9 PM EDT DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. 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, Jul 19, 6:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
606 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM FAYETTEVILLE NC 1 INCH HAIL
07/19/98 CUMBERLAND QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY CUMBERLAND COUNTY 911
ON I-95 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF FAYETTEVILLE.Local storm report, Jul 19, 7:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
735 PM EDT SUN JUL 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0624 P(M TROY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/19/98 MONTGOMERY TREES DOWN 5 MILES SW OF
TROYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph | 118 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.