Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2003, 5:58 PM EDT for Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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
- May 3, 2003, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2003, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
910
WUUS52 KRAH 032158
SVRRAH
NCC153-032245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
558 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RICHMOND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 558 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROCKINGHAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
DOBBINS HEIGHTS...HAMLET
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.
LAT...LON 3480 7971 3488 7985 3503 7979 3498 7958
3489 7958 3482 7962
$$
12The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 24 min |
| May 3, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 24 min |
| May 3, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 40 min |
| May 3, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson | 24 min |
| May 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson | 16 min |
| May 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 44 min |
| May 3, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 14 min |
| May 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson | 30 min |
| May 3, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 25 min |
| May 3, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 23 min |
| May 3, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Scotland | 35 min |
| May 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 23 min |
| May 3, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 45 min |
| May 3, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 30 min |
| May 3, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 51 min |
| May 3, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2003Every 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.