Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 216
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT for 33 counties in North Carolina; 11 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Alamance County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Carroll County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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.
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 21 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay and 12 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davidson, Gaston and 7 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.