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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 8, 2000Davidson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 5:29 PM EDT for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
Aug 8, 2000, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Davidson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 2000-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 450 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 2000-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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.

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 082130
SVRRDU
NCC057-082215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
ISSUED BY BLACKSBURG VA
529 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF DENTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 615 PM EDT INCLUDE   
   
HIGH ROCK LAKE...
SOUTHMONT...
OAKWOOD ACRES...   

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

.END
05

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 Aug 8, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
320 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000

HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA WITH NVA. LIKE
GOING FORECAST OF MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES TONIGHT. A WEAK SHORT WAVE
MOVES THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY ALONG WITH WEAK PVA AND WEAK UPWARD
LIFT. PLAN ON A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. STILL
SOME ENERGY AT 00Z WEDNESDAY EVENING. SO WILL INCLUDE A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. YET ANOTHER SHORT WAVE THURSDAY
WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. IN THE
EXTENDED PERIOD OVER THE WEEKEND...SHORT WAVE IN AREA FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY. WEATHER CONDITIONS IMPROVE SUNDAY AS FRONT IS TO THE EAST.
GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES LOOK REASONABLE.

.RAH...NONE.

TTH

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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.