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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 1, 1999Davidson County, Guilford County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1999, 6:48 PM EDT for Davidson County, Guilford 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
Jul 1, 1999, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1999, 7:20 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, NC, Guilford County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 18 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1999-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1156 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1999-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
1156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-020320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
330 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1999

...NEAR RECORD HEAT EXPECTED FOR JULY 4TH AND MONDAY...

HIGH PRESSURE OVER ATLANTIC WATERS THURSDAY IS FORECAST TO BUILD
INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES AND STRENGTHEN OVER THE
WEEKEND...BRINGING A POTENTIAL FOR RECORD BREAKING HEAT SUNDAY AND
MONDAY.

PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ARE EXPECTED WITH LITTLE CHANCE FOR
PRECIPITATION. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY TO RISE TO NEAR
RECORD LEVELS...IN THE UPPER 90S...FOR SEVERAL HOURS DURING THE
AFTERNOON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. A FEW TRIPLE DIGIT READINGS ARE NOT
OUT OF THE QUESTION.

THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR:

                    SUNDAY (4TH)     MONDAY
     RALEIGH          98 IN 1997     100 IN 1948

     GREENSBORO       98 IN 1970      98 IN 1990

REMEMBER PROLONGED EXPOSURE COMBINED WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CAN
CAUSE HEAT EXHAUSThION AND HEAT STROKE. AVOID PROLONGED ACTIVITY
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS IF POSSIBLE. THE ELDERLY...VERY
YOUNG...SICK AND PERSONS WITH HEART CONDITIONS ARE MOST AT RISK IN
EXTREME HEAT.
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-020320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
330 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1999

...NEAR RECORD HEAT EXPECTED FOR JULY 4TH AND MONDAY...

HIGH PRESSURE OVER ATLANTIC WATERS THURSDAY IS FORECAST TO BUILD
INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES AND STRENGTHEN OVER THE
WEEKEND...BRINGING A POTENTIAL FOR RECORD BREAKING HEAT SUNDAY AND
MONDAY.

PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ARE EXPECTED WITH LITTLE CHANCE FOR
PRECIPITATION. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY TO RISE TO NEAR
RECORD LEVELS...IN THE UPPER 90S...FOR SEVERAL HOURS DURING THE
AFTERNOON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. A FEW TRIPLE DIGIT READINGS ARE NOT
OUT OF THE QUESTION.

THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR:

                    SUNDAY (4TH)     MONDAY
     RALEIGH          98 IN 1997     100 IN 1948

     GREENSBORO       98 IN 1970      98 IN 1990

REMEMBER PROLONGED EXPOSURE COMBINED WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CAN
CAUSE HEAT EXHAUSThION AND HEAT STROKE. AVOID PROLONGED ACTIVITY
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS IF POSSIBLE. THE ELDERLY...VERY
YOUNG...SICK AND PERSONS WITH HEART CONDITIONS ARE MOST AT RISK IN
EXTREME HEAT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 7:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.