Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Nov 28, 1988, 1:45 AM EST for Franklin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 28, 1988, 1:45 AM EST (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 28, 1988, 2:15 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 589 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KRDU 280648
TORRDU
NCC069-280715-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
145 AM EST MON NOV 28 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
...FRANKLIN
AT 1:30 AM EST SEVERAL REPORTS OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY HAD BEEN REPORTED
BY THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN NORTHERN WAKE COUNTY AND FRANKLIN COUNTY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.
TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY NOW. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. GET OUT OF
MOBILE HOMES AND CARS. IF DAMAGE OCCURS NEAR YOU...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
WALK AROUND IN THE DARK. THERE MAY BE DOWNED POWER LINES AND OTHER
HAZARDS THAT CANNOT BE SEEN.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 28, 1:35 AM EST, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 130 PM EST MON N0V 28 1988 A THUNDERSTORM PASSING THROUGH RALEIGH AROUND 1 AM THIS MORNING HAS CAUSED DAMAGE TO HOUSES AND TREES. A TORNADO MAY HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM. RADAR SHOWS THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED SOME AND IS LOCATED NEAR WAKE FOREST. IT IS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS WILL TAKE THE STORM INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY. STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORM. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JBP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 28, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 30 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.