Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 3:34 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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 25, 2000, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 4:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sampson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
104 WUUS52 KRAH 251936 SVRRDU NCC163-252010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 334 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 410 PM EDT * AT 334 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF GARLAND...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO IN BLADEN COUNTY...AND SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST SAMPSON COUNTY BEFORE 345 PM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HARRELLS AT 350 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3487 7852 3453 7829 3466 7786 3489 7786
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 34 min |
| May 25, 10:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 32 min |
| May 25, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 29 min |
| May 25, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 32 min |
| May 25, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Wake | 47 min |
| May 25, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance | 48 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.