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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 8, 2000Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2000, 4:37 PM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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: Apr 8, 2000, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2000, 5:10 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Harnett 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
Apr 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 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 082037
SVRRDU
NCC085-082110-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
437 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 510 PM EDT

* AT 436 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF LILLINGTON... MOVING EAST AT
  50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LILLINGTON AT 445 PM EDT
  ANGIER AT 445 PM EDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

WSS/PWB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	32 min
Apr 8, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Wake	30 min
Apr 8, 4:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Granville, Wake	34 min
Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance	31 min
Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	31 min
Apr 8, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Warren	33 min
Apr 8, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash	32 min
Apr 8, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	32 min
Apr 8, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	50 min
Apr 8, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	33 min
Apr 8, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 min
Apr 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	47 min
Apr 8, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	19 min
Apr 8, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 min

Nearby

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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.