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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 3, 1998Alamance County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 11:07 PM EST for Alamance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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: Apr 3, 1998, 11:07 PM EST (04:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1998, 11:40 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Alamance County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 3, 9:15 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 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.

439 
WUUS1 KRDU 040408 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC001-040440-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1107 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  ALAMANCE COUNTY

* UNTIL 1140 PM EST

* THIS STORM WILL AFFECT:
  ELON COLLEGE...GLEN RAVEN...GRAHAM AND BURLINGTON


* BASIS FOR WARNING: A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL WAS
REPORTED AT GIBSONVILLE ON THE GUILFORD/ALAMANCE COUNTY LINE. THE
STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LARGE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY

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, Apr 3, 10:08 PM EST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1008 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998

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

0958 PM    LOCUST                    NC   .5 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

1000 PM    STANFIELD                 NC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

1000 PM    1 S STANFIELD             NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

Local storm report, Apr 3, 10:08 PM EST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1008 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998

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

0958 PM    LOCUST                    NC   .5 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

1000 PM    STANFIELD                 NC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

1000 PM    1 S STANFIELD             NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

Local storm report, Apr 3, 10:26 PM EST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
525 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998

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

1022 PM    NORWOOD                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

Local storm report, Apr 3, 10:27 PM EST, 40 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1027 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998

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

1022 PM    NORWOOD                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

Local storm report, Apr 3, 11:03 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1103 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998

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

1022 PM    NORWOOD                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

1032 PM    VASS                      NC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   MOORE

1042 PM    10 SW TROY                NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   MONTGOMERY

Local storm report, Apr 3, 11:03 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1103 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998

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

1022 PM    NORWOOD                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   STANLY

1032 PM    VASS                      NC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   MOORE

1042 PM    10 SW TROY                NC   1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98   MONTGOMERY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 9:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	32 min
Apr 3, 10:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery	45 min
Apr 3, 10:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	33 min
Apr 3, 11:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	17 min

Nearby

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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.