Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 3:04 PM EST for Sampson 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
- Mar 31, 2002, 3:04 PM EST (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 3:30 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Salemburg, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
973 WUUS52 KRAH 312004 SVRRAH NCC163-312030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 303 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 303 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... CLINTON ROSEBORO SALEMBURG HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. $$ WSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 2:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 2:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 6:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 85 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.