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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 28, 1986Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1986, 5:13 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1986, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Pitt 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, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Pitt, 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

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 282116 COR
TORRDU
NCC147-282215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

NORTH CAROLINA...PITT

AT 507 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
10 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM IS OVER OR NEAR THE FOLLOWING
COMMUNITIES...GREENVILLE.

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, 4:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett	31 min
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, 5:29 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.