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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 2, 2006Franklin County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2006, 4:24 PM EDT for Franklin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2006, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2006, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2006-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 378 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 2006-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 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
378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford23 min
Jun 2, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph21 min
Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson17 min
Jun 2, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson12 min
Jun 2, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham12 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.