Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 1:44 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports 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
- May 8, 1998, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Roanoke Rapids, NC | |
| May 8, 1:58 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Leggett, NC | |
| May 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Scotland Neck, NC |
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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
069 WUUS1 KRDU 081745 RRA SVRRDU NCC065-083-081830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 144 PM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY SOUTHERN HALIFAX COUNTY * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 143 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF ROCKY MOUNT... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BATTLEBORO...GETHSEMANE AND LAWRENCE IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY HOBGOOD...ROSENEATH AND PALMYRA IN HALIFAX COUNTY THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MLM
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, May 8, 12:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1230 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1216 PM HENDERSON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 VANCE SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
DIME SIZED HAIL 2 MILES W
OF HENDERSON AND ALSO IN
DABNEY.
1218 PM OXFORD NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 GRANVILLE SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORT
DIME SIZED HAIL IN OXFORD.Local storm report, May 8, 12:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1238 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1235 PM WARRENTON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 WARREN SKYWARN OBSERVER REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT
WARRENTON IN WARREN COUNTYLocal storm report, May 8, 12:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1242 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1227 PM NORLINA NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 WARREN SKYWARN OBSERVER REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL IN NORLINALocal storm report, May 8, 1:20 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
120 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0106 PM AFTON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 WARREN WARREN COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL IN AFTON AND
ELBERON
0106 PM AFTON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 WARREN WARREN COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL IN AFTON AND IN
ELBERONLocal storm report, May 8, 1:25 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
125 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM VAUGHAN NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 WARREN WARREN COUNTY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL IN VAUGHAN.Local storm report, May 8, 1:37 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
137 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0134 PM ROANOKE RAPIDS NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98 HALIFAX HALIFAX COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT REPORTED DIME
HAIL IN ROANOKEN RAPIDS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 32 min |
| May 7, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 32 min |
| May 7, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 34 min |
| May 7, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 31 min |
| May 7, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 32 min |
| May 7, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wake | 31 min |
| May 8, 9:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 32 min |
| May 8, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 31 min |
| May 8, 11:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 32 min |
| May 8, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 31 min |
| May 8, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 33 min |
| May 8, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 33 min |
| May 8, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 50 min |
| May 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 48 min |
| May 8, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 32 min |
| May 8, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 33 min |
| May 8, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 51 min |
| May 8, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 33 min |
| May 8, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 35 min |
| May 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 32 min |
| May 8, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 32 min |
| May 8, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 31 min |
| May 8, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 29 min |
| May 8, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 29 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.