Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 343
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2001, 12:00 PM EDT for 52 counties in North Carolina; 12 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2001, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 30 min |
| 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, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 44 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, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 50 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, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Chowan and 24 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.