Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2001, 12:00 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2001, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moore County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:25 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Carthage, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KRAH 011601 SVRRAH NCC125-011630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1200 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOORE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1230 PM EDT * AT NOON EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARTHAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... CARTHAGE 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. $$ DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 1:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 1:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 16 min |
| Jun 1, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 2:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.