Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2002, 6:19 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
- Jul 5, 2002, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:37 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wilson, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
617 WUUS52 KRAH 052219 SVRRAH NCC195-052245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 618 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 618 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILSON...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WILSON SARATOGA STANTONSBURG HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 12 min |
| Jul 5, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wake | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 7:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wilson | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 7:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston | 2 hr |
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.