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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 28, 1986Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1986, 4:04 PM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1986, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1986, 4:35 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Harnett County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 4:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Harnett, NC
Jun 28, 4:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Harnett, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 282004
TORRDU
NCC085-282035-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
404 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 435 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHERN HARNETT

AT 350 PM  A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY AN AIRCRAFT PILOT IN
NORTHERN HARNETT COUNTY. THE RALEIGH RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH GET OUT OF
YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND FIND SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE
CLOSE TO YOU.  GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
A BASEMENT IS BEST.  COVER YOUR HEAD.  REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER
TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

 DMD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Bertie	66 min
Jun 28, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	38 min
Jun 28, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	67 min
Jun 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Martin	60 min
Jun 28, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Pitt	62 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	61 min
Jun 28, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir	58 min
Jun 28, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	66 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.