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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 31, 1998Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1998, 6:53 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
Aug 31, 1998, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1998-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1229 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1998-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

079 
WUUS1 KRDU 312254 RRB
SVRRDU
NCC191-312325-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED UGC CODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
653 PM EDT MON AUG 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY

* UNTIL 725 PM EDT

* AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PIKEVILLE... MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GOLDSBORO BY 705 PM EDT
  PATETOWN BY 700 PM EDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

JWC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland65 min
Aug 30, 9:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson61 min
Aug 30, 10:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland63 min
Aug 30, 10:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHCumberland, Sampson58 min
Aug 31, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMontgomery33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.