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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 13, 2002Moore County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2002, 6:52 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
May 13, 2002, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2002, 7:20 PM EDT
In force
28 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 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 13, 7:06 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ERobbins, NCTrees were blown down along Highway 705 near the Randolph county line. A tree fell onto a car in Robbins.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 13, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 719 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 132252
SVRRAH
NCC125-132320-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
649 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 720 PM EDT

* AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
   A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY ABOUT 10     
   MILES WEST OF ROBBINS. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH ALONG HIGHWAYS
   24 AND 27.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ROBBINS AROUND 700 PM EDT
   CARTHAGE AROUND 710 PM EDT

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD
LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS
AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAYBE WASHED OUT.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth34 min
May 13, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson43 min
May 13, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford36 min
May 13, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMontgomery, Stanly25 min
May 13, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph22 min
May 13, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson, Stanly31 min
May 13, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Randolph44 min
May 13, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLee33 min
May 13, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRichmond23 min
May 13, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake34 min
May 13, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett29 min
May 13, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Granville26 min
May 13, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke, Moore, Scotland34 min
May 13, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.