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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 26, 2000Lee County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 4:51 PM EDT for Lee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 26, 2000, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 5:05 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Tramway, NC

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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 262052
SVRRDU
NCC105-262130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
451 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 451 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANFORD...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES EAST OF CARTHAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SANFORD... LEMON SPRINGS... TRAMWAY... 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCpESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 26, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
230 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

SMALL SCALE UPPER LEVEL CYCLONE CENTER IS SHOWN BY WATER VAPOR
IMAGERY OVER EASTERN GA AT 18Z. WITH ANTICYCLONIC FLOW EVIDENT TO
THE NORTHEAST...THESE FEATURES SHOULD ENHANCE UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE
TO THE NORTH OF THE CYCLONE CENTER INTO THE WESTERN RAH CWA THROUGH
00Z THIS EVENING.  THIS SHOULD ALSO PROLONG THE POTENTIAL FOR TSTMS
INTO THE EVENING HOURS...MAINLY SOUTHWEST. RELATIVELY HIGH PW VALUES
AND SLOW MOVEMENT COULD ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

LATEST MESOETA SUGGESTS UPPER CYCLONE CENTER WILL DRIFT SOUTH AND
DIVERGENCE WILL DIMINISH ALOFT LEAVING THE DEEP SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER
CENTRAL NC LATER TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. SKIES SHOULD REMAIN PARTLY
CLOUDY DURING THIS PERIOD WITH CONVECTIVE CLOUD DEBRIS AND PATCHES
OF EARLY MORNING STRATUS AND AC.

LATE TUESDAY...A COLD FRONT NOW IN MISSOURI WILL CHARGE EAST TO THE
APPALACHIANS. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY BECOMES DIFFUSE EAST OF THE
MOUNTAINS.  BUT MAXIMUM DIVERGENCE ALOFT..MID LEVEL UPWARD VERTICAL
MOTION...AND MAXIMUM MOISTURE CROSSES THE RAH CWA AROUND 06Z TUE
NIGHT.  POPS FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS WILL BE INCREASED FOR TUE NIGHT.

MODERATE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY LINGER WITH THE DIFFUSE STATIONARY
FRONTAL ZONE FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS ON WED.

NO MAJOR CHANGES FROM MAX/MIN GUIDANCE ARE EXPECTED WITH MOST MIN/MAX
READWINGS WITHIN A COUPLE DEGREES OF 70 AND 90.

.RAH...NONE.

RFG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 4:03 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
403 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

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

0404 PM    ROCKINGHAM                NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/00   RICHMOND                       LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          TREE DOWN ON NORTH SIDE
                                          DRIVE IN N\ORTHERN
                                          ROCKINGHAM CO.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 4:08 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
408 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

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

0400 PM    ROCKINGHAM                NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/00   RICHMOND                       TREE DOWN ON MCNEIL DRIVE
                                          IN ROCKINGHAM.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 4:35 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
435 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000

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

0430   PM    TAYLORTOWN                NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/00   MOORE                          LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          SEVERAL TREES DOWNED
                                          IN TAYLORTO5WN ABOUT 5
                                          MILES NORTHWEST OF
                                          PINEHURST.

PWB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 9:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Montgomery	56 min
Jun 26, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond	39 min
Jun 26, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	38 min
Jun 26, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.