Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 6:11 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 22, 1998, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1998, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scotland County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
052 WUUS1 KRDU 222213 SVRRDU NCC165-222245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION HIGHWAY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 611 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SCOTLAND COUNTY * UNTIL 650 PM EDT * AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF LAURINBURG BETWEEN US 401 AND US 501... MOVING SLOWLY EAST. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HASTY AROUND 615 PM DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS RFG
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
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:45 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-230000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 545 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE SANDHILLS SECTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING...MAINLY IN AREAS NEAR FAYETTEVILLE AND SOUTHERN PINES SOUTH AND EAST. THE CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS IS REMOTE...BUT AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS FROM LARGE HAIL THIS EVENING. A LARGE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES IS CAUSING VERY COLD AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS IS CAUSING AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND THE THREAT OF HAIL FROM SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED. HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND SHOULD BE FORWARDED PROMPTLY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RFG ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMERY MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:45 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088>089-230000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 545 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998 (THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA APPLIES ONLY TO THE COUNTIES LISTED AT THE END OF TEXT.) SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE SANDHILLS SECTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING...MAINLY IN AREAS NEAR FAYETTEVILLE AND SOUTHERN PINES SOUTH AND EAST. THE CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS IS REMOTE...BUT AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS FROM LARGE HAIL THIS EVENING. A LARGE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES IS CAUSING VERY COLD AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS IS CAUSING AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND THE THREAT OF HAIL FROM SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED. HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND SHOULD BE FORWARDED PROMPTLY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RFG ********************************************************************* ALAMANCE ANSON CHATHAM CUMBERLAND DAVIDSON DURHAM EDGECOMBE FORSYTH FRANKLIN GRANVILLE GUILFORD HALIFAX HARNETT HOKE JOHNSTON LEE MONTGOMERY MOORE NASH ORANGE PERSON RANDOLPH RICHMOND SAMPSON SCOTLAND STANLY VANCE WAKE WARREN WAYNE WILSON
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.