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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 27, 2000Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT for Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, NC

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 2:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 27, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

026 
WUUS52 KRAH 272131
SVRRDU
NCC185-272200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
530 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WARRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ARCOLA AT 550 PM EDT

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson42 min
May 27, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson31 min
May 27, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph33 min
May 27, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Randolph46 min
May 27, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWarren31 min
May 27, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville, Vance52 min
May 27, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston29 min
May 27, 6:13 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWayne32 min
May 27, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston33 min
May 27, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne, Wilson28 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.