Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 25, 2001Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2001, 11:17 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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, 2001, 11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2001, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 260317
SVRRAH
NCC167-260345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1117 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 1114 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLYLER...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES EAST OF CHARLOTTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  LOCUST 
  OAKBORO
  ALBEMARLE
  PLYLER

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH. 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.

$$

SEB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	26 min
May 25, 11:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	27 min
May 25, 11:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	31 min
May 26, 11:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	36 min
May 26, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	25 min
May 26, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	25 min
May 26, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.