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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 25, 2000Anson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 4:29 PM EDT for Anson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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: May 25, 2000, 4:29 PM EDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Anson County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 2013 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 25, 2:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
230 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

.SHORT TERM...SVR STORMS DEVELOPED IN THE AM AS VORTICITY FROM
PLAINS MCS OVERTOOK DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY AND AN AREA
INCREASING INSTABILITY IN CENTRAL NC. VORT...LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY
NOW EAST OF CWA. BUT AIRMASS STILL UNSTABLE AND REMAINS OF YET
ANOTHER MCS IN TN PROG TO ENTER AREA BY EARLY THIS EVE. BEST
INSTABILITY WILL BE SRN TIER NEAR DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY.
WL CARRY 20 (NORTH) AND 30% POPS FOR THIS EVE. OTHERWISE PT CLDY
OVERNIGHT WITH SW AND W WINDS BECOMING NW. LOWS A LITTLE COOLER
TNGT AS SFC HIGH BUILDS INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH.

WITH HIGH PRESS IN CONTROL AND DRIER MORE STABLE AIR IN PLACE
WILL NOT CARRY POPS FOR A MOSTLY SUNNY DAY FRI. SEASONABLE TEMPS
FOR HIGHS AND LOWS. RETURN SW FLOW AROUND OFFSHORE HIGH PRESS FOR
SAT WITH TEMPS A BIT WARMER. LACK OF SYNOPTIC SCALE TRIGGER FOR
CONVECTION AS MOISTURE INCREASES. PT CLDY SAT WITH NO POPS. BUT
FUTURE FORECASTS MAY INCLUDE POPS IF MESOSCALE TRIGGER DETECTED.

.LONGER TERM...AS UPR LEVEL PATTERN AMPLIFIES....APPEARS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR SHOWERS AND TSTMS SUN. THEN AS ANOTHER FRONTAL
SYSTEM PASSES...MON AND TUE LIKELY DRY.

.RAH...NONE.

!KK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 11:16 AM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1116 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

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

0950 AM    GREENSBORO ARPT           NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/25/00   GUILFORD                       GREENSBORO AIRPORT
                                          REPORTED WIND GUST OF 81
                                          MPH.

Special weather statement, May 25, 12:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
1210 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-252300-
ALAMANCE NC-ANSON NC-CHATHAM NC-CUMBERLAND NC-DAVIDSON NC-DURHAM NC-
EDGECOMBE NC-FORSYTH NC-FRANKLIN NC-GRANVILLE NC-GUILFORD NC-
HALIFAX NC-HARNETT NC-HOKE NC-JOHNSTON NC-LEE NC-MONTGOMERY NC-
MOORE NC-NASH NC-ORANGE NC-PERSON NC-RANDOLPH NC-RICHMOND NC-
SAMPSON NC-SCOTLAND NC-STANLY NC-VANCE NC-WAKE NC-WARREN NC-WAYNE NC-
WILSON NC-
1210 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS
INCLUDES AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM THE GREENSBORO
TRIAD... BURLINGTON ...RALEIGH-DURHAM TRIANGLE...AND ROCKY MOUNT TO
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LINE.

.SKYWARN SPOTTERS...
SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AFTER 1 PM TO AS LATE AS 9 PM THIS EVENING.
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT THREATENING WEATHER TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

.SYNOPTIC PATTERN...
A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA BY TONIGHT. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH WARM AND HUMID AIR
WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

.HAZARDOUS WEATHER DETAILS...
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS MORNING THROUGH MID DAY.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RE-DEVELOP LATER THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. BECAUSE OF STRONG WINDS IN THE MIDDLE
ATMOSPHERE...THE PRIMARY TH}REAT WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
FROM DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL WEATHER NEWS MEDIA FOR
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS.

RA

Special weather statement, May 25, 12:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
1210 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-252300-
ALAMANCE NC-ANSON NC-CHATHAM NC-CUMBERLAND NC-DAVIDSON NC-DURHAM NC-
EDGECOMBE NC-FORSYTH NC-FRANKLIN NC-GRANVILLE NC-GUILFORD NC-
HALIFAX NC-HARNETT NC-HOKE NC-JOHNSTON NC-LEE NC-MONTGOMERY NC-
MOORE NC-NASH NC-ORANGE NC-PERSON NC-RANDOLPH NC-RICHMOND NC-
SAMPSON NC-SCOTLAND NC-STANLY NC-VANCE NC-WAKE NC-WARREN NC-WAYNE NC-
WILSON NC-
1210 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS
INCLUDES AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM THE GREENSBORO
TRIAD... BURLINGTON ...RALEIGH-DURHAM TRIANGLE...AND ROCKY MOUNT TO
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LINE.

.SKYWARN SPOTTERS...
SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AFTER 1 PM TO AS LATE AS 9 PM THIS EVENING.
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT THREATENING WEATHER TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

.SYNOPTIC PATTERN...
A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA BY TONIGHT. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH WARM AND HUMID AIR
WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

.HAZARDOUS WEATHER DETAILS...
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS MORNING THROUGH MID DAY.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RE-DEVELOP LATER THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. BECAUSE OF STRONG WINDS IN THE MIDDLE
ATMOSPHERE...THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
FROM DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL WEATHER NEWS MEDIA FOR
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS.

RA

Local storm report, May 25, 12:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1242 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

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

1100 AM    RALEIGH                   NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/25/00   WAKE                           LARGE TREES DOWN ON DURANT
                                          ROAD ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH
                                          IN THxE CITY OF RALEIGH

Local storm report, May 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
112 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

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

1135 AM    HENDERSON                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/25/00   VANCE                          SEVERAL HOMES WITH WIND
                                          DAMAGE. SEVERAL ROOFS PEELED
                                          BACK ON COUPLE HOMES UNDER
                                          CONSTRUCTION

Local storm report, May 25, 1:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
125 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

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

0943 AM    WALKERTOWN                NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/25/00   FORSYTH                        TREE DOWN ON MOBILE
                                          HOME...COMPLETELY
                                          DEMOLISHED.

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, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	36 min

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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.