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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 22, 1998Durham County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1998, 8:15 PM EDT for Durham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
Jul 22, 1998, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Durham County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:37 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
337 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    BENSON                    NC   1 INCH HAIL
07/22/98   JOHNSTON                       QUARTER SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED ALONG HIGHWAY 50
                                          ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
                                          BENSON.  REPORTED BY
                                          JOHNSTON COUNTY 911
                                          CENTER.
Local storm report, Jul 22, 5:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
527 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0525 PM    BENSON                    NC   1 INCH HAIL
07/22/98   JOHNSTON                       JOHNSTON COUNTY 911
                                          REPORTS NICKEL TO QUARTER
                                          SIZED HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND 2 MILES SOUTHEAST
                                          OF BENSON.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.