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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 3, 2000Franklin County, Granville County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT for Franklin County, Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 3, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

076 
WUUS52 KRAH 032318
SVRRDU
NCC069-077-040000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
715 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GRANVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 715 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF STEM...OR ABOUT 8 MILES   
NORTHWEST OF CREEDMOOR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF KITTRELL OR ABOUT 12 MILES 
NORTHWEST OF FRANKLINTON ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   CREEDMOOR AT 725 PM EDT
   YOUNGSVILLE...FRANKLINTON AT 735 PM EDT
   LOUISBURG AT 750 PM EDT

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU
ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

LAT...LON 3632 7881 3615 7887 3584 7825 3619 7802
          3617 7842

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.

NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
220 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

TOUGH FORECAST FOR SHORT-TERM. DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT ANY SIGNIFICANT
MECHANISM TO KEY ORGANIZED PRECIP ACROSS REGION DURING THE NEXT 24-
48 HOURS. GENERALLY FOLLOWED ETA/MESO-ETA SOLUTION WITH SLIGHT
ADJUSTMENTS.

AIRMASS ACROSS CENTRAL NC VERY UNSTABLE AT THIS TIME WITH LIFTED
INDICES AROUND -7/-8 AND SURFACE THETA-E MAX STRETCHING W-E ACROSS
REGION. SURFACE COLD FRONT APPEARS TO EXTEND ACROSS CENTRAL VA TO
SOUTH OF BECKLEY. MEANWHILE WEAK PERTURBATIONS NOTED ON WATER VAPOR
IMAGERY CROSSING TN VALLEY AT MID-DAY.

DPROG/DT ANALYSIS OF MODELS DEPICTS MOISTURE AXIS ORIGINALLY
SITUATED OVER SC/SRN NC TONIGHT IN EARLIER MODEL RUNS NOW PROJECTED
TO BE MORE OVER NC. THIS SEEMS PLAUSIBLE AS SURFACE BOUNDARY MAKING
NO HEAD WAY SOUTH AND SERIES OF WEAK PERTURBATIONS ALOFT PROGGED TO
TRACK ACROSS REGION OVERNIGHT. THUS EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
TO BECOME NUMEROUS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF CWA OVERNIGHT.
DUE TO WEAK FLOW ALOFT...EXPECT STORMS TO MOVE E-SE AT 20 KNOTS OR
LESS. WITH PRECIP WATER BETWEEN 1.5 AND 1.8 INCHES ACROSS
AREA...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY. INSPITE OF DROUGHT
CONDITIONS...COULD SEE SOME RUN-OFF PROBLEMS DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF
STORMS AND ROCK-HARD TOP SOIL. EXPECT GREATEST COVERAGE OVER TRIAD
REGION INITIALLY BUT THEN FOCUS SHOULD SHIFT TO THE SE PIEDMONT/
WESTERN SANDHILLS TOWARD 00Z THEN TRANSLATE NEWD BY 04Z.

APPEARS MAIN THREAT FOR PRECIP SUN WILL BE OVER EASTERN FRINGES OF
CWA. WILL CONT MORNING SHOWERS OVER EASTERN HALF  BUT EXPECT MOST OF
THE PRECIP TO BE CONFINED TO AREAS ALONG/E OF I-95 BY EARLY
AFTERNOON. REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD REMAIN
CLOUDY/MOSTLY CLOUDY. ANY THREAT OF SHOWERS APPEARS MINIMAL AT THIS
TIME. FAVOR HIGHS SUN ABOUT A CATEGORY COOLER THAN FAN MOS.

APPEARS NEXT DECENT SHOT OF PRECIP WILL OCCUR MONDAY NIGHT. S/W DIGS
ACROSS GREAT LAKES MON WITH VORT AXIS/ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT
SWINGING ACROSS REGION AFT 00Z/TUE. COULD SEE SCATTERED ACTIVITY MON
(ESPECIALLY SOUTH) AS ANOTHER WEAK VORT CENTER PROGGED TO CROSS
REGION.

FOR EXTENDED...WILL GO WITH DECREASING CLOUDS TUE AND DRY WED/THU
WITH SEASONAL TEMPS BY THU.

RDU 64/78/63/80 6613                     GSO 63/77/63/79 6313
                    FAY 67/80/68/84 7613
.RAH...NONE.

WSS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
539 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0537 PM    ARCHDALE                  NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   GUILFORD

Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT... FROM 6/3...COR COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
539 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0537 PM    ARCHDALE                  NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   RANDOLPH

Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
557 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0545 PM    AUTREYVILLE               NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   SAMPSON                       WSS

Local storm report, Jun 3, 6:31 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
631 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0631 PM    6 N OXFORD                NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   GRANVILLE                     WSS

Local storm report, Jun 3, 6:39 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
639 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0639 PM    OXFORD                    NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   GRANVILLE                     WSS

Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:09 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
709 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

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

0709 PM    KITTRELL                  NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00   VANCE                         WSS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	45 min
Jun 3, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	32 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	29 min
Jun 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	34 min
Jun 3, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	28 min
Jun 3, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	27 min
Jun 3, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	35 min
Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	31 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	43 min
Jun 3, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	30 min
Jun 3, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	43 min
Jun 3, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	47 min
Jun 3, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	28 min
Jun 3, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	29 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	43 min
Jun 3, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	36 min
Jun 3, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	33 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	32 min
Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	46 min
Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	23 min
Jun 3, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	47 min
Jun 3, 7:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Granville, Wake	26 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	49 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.