Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2000, 5:20 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 8, 2000, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 5:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Wilson, NC | Trees down at I-95 and Highway 264. Power outages reported countywide. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KRAH 082120 SVRRDU NCC195-082210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 520 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 610 PM EDT * AT 517 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF WILSON...SOUTH OF MIDDLESEX. .. MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILSON BY 540 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS NORTHERN WAKE COUNTY. WSS/PWB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Wake | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Wake | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 19 min |
| Apr 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.