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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 6, 2002Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 7:56 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 6, 2002, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 8:00 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EStanhope, NCNumerous reports of trees down, causing power outages and damaging vehicles.

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 nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2002-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 062356
SVRRAH
NCC127-070030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
755 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NASH COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 755 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  NASHVILLE
  DORTCHES
  MIDDLESEX

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

$$

DGS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson54 min
Jun 6, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson47 min
Jun 6, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax52 min
Jun 6, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHStanly25 min
Jun 6, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham21 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.