Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 20, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1998, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 20, 9:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Albemarle, NC | Several trees were downed by strong thunderstorm winds 15 miles southwest of the city of Albemarle near NC-24/27. |
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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
925 WUUS1 KRDU 210046 RRA SVRRDU NCC167-210130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 845 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STANLY COUNTY * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 842 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FIVE MILES NORTH AND WEST OF ALBEMARLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALBEMARLE AT 850 PM DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. OTHER STORMS IN THE AREA HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND WITH DOWNED TREES. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RLH
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 20, 6:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
635 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM ASHEBORO NC WIND DAMAGE
07/20/98 RANDOLPH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
REPORTED TREES DOWNED ON
OLD LEXINGTON RD. ABOUT 5
MILES NW OF
ASHEBORO...DIME-SIZE HAIL
WAS ALSO REPORTED.Local storm report, Jul 20, 7:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
741 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM ASHEBORO NC WIND DAMAGE
07/20/98 RANDOLPH EMERGENCY MANGAGEMENT
REPORTED TREES DOWN AND
DIME-SIZE HAIL ABOUT 10
MILES SOUTWEST OF
ASHEBORO.
0700 PM RAMSEUR NC WIND DAMAGE
07/20/98 RANDOLPH SKYWARN REPORTED TREES
DOWN ON HWY 64 5 MILES
EAST OF RAMSEUR...LIMBS
CRASHED THROUGH WINDSHIELD
OF CAR CAUSING AN
ACCIDENT.Local storm report, Jul 20, 8:03 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
803 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM ROANOKE RAPIDS NC WIND DAMAGE
07/20/98 HALIFAX HALIFAX 911 REPORTED TREES
DOWN 10 MILES SW OF
ROANOKE RAPIDS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 8:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 35 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.