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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 8, 1998Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 4:20 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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: May 8, 1998, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

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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, May 8, 1:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 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, 2 hours 43 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.

Local storm report, May 8, 1:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
156 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998

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

0145 PM    ROANOKE RAPIDS            NC   .88 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   HALIFAX                        HALIFAX COUNTY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT AND SKY WARN
                                          OBSERVERS REPORTED NICKLE
                                          HAIL NEAR THE INTERSECTION
                                          OF HIGHWAYS 1-95 AND NC
                                          903.

Local storm report, May 8, 2:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
203 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998

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

0158 PM    LEGGETT                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   EDGECOMBE                      STATE PATROL REPORTED
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL JUST
                                          NORTH OF LEGGETT.

Local storm report, May 8, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
209 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998

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

0206 PM    TARBORO                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   EDGECOMBE                      STATE PATROL REPORTED
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL JUST
                                          NORTH OF TARBORO.

Local storm report, May 8, 4:02 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
402 PM EDT FRI MAY 08 1998

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

0330 PM    LUCAMA                    NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   WILSON                         MARBLE TO GOLF SIZE HAIL
                                          AND VEHICLE DAMAGE IN
                                          LUCAMA

0345 PM    BLACK CREEK               NC   1 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   WILSON                         SKYWARN OBSERVER REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN
                                          BLACK CREEK.

0345 PM    BLACK CREEK               NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   WILSON                         GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL

0345 PM    GOLDSBORO                 NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   WAYNE                          SEVERAL REPORTS OF DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL EAST OF
                                          GOLDSBORO

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, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	46 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, 4:24 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, 1998 Every 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.