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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 2, 2003Harnett County, Lee County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2003, 2:34 PM EDT for Harnett County, Lee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2003, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harnett County, NC, Lee County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 511 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.

357 
WUUS52 KRAH 021834
SVRRAH
NCC085-105-021915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
233 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN HARNETT COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
  SOUTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LEMON SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  SANFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PENNY SIZED HAIL AND WINDS   
  IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  OLIVIA...PINEVIEW
  BROADWAY
  SEMINOLE

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

LAT...LON 3534 7934 3520 7922 3540 7878 3561 7896

$$

BLAES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 1:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Moore	46 min
Jul 2, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	30 min
Jul 2, 3:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett	31 min
Jul 2, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	44 min
Jul 2, 5:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Sampson	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.