Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 237
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2016, 3:48 PM EDT for 70 counties in North Carolina; 16 counties in South Carolina; 63 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2016, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 149 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Martin County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC, Accomack County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person, Vance, Warren | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Vance, Warren | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville, Southampton, Sussex, City of Emporia | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk and 2 more | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 51 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham and 29 more | 118 min |
| Jun 5, 7:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe and 20 more | 97 min |
| Jun 5, 1:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta and 73 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Stafford | 93 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.