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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 28, 2000Granville County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 8:43 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2000, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2000, 9:10 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Granville County, NC

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 28, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -135 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

187 
WUUS52 KRAH 290044
SVRRDU
NCC077-290110-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
843 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GRANVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 910 PM EDT

* AT 843 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF OAK HILL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  EAST OF ROXBORO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   STOVALL AT 855 PM EDT
   OXFORD AT 900 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3653 7879 3629 7880 3625 7854 3653 7846

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore25 min
May 28, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson21 min
May 28, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake26 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.