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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 25, 1991Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1991, 9:37 PM EDT for Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 25, 1991, 9:37 PM EDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 1991, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Cape Hatteras, NC at 00:00Z on 1991-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1533 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, Cape Hatteras, NC at 00:00Z on 1991-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 260137
TORILM
NCC049-103-260245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
937 PM EDT WED SEP 25 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CRAVEN COUNTY...JONES COUNTY
 
RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING INTO JONES COUNTY. AT 926 PM A
PILOT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE ONSLOW AND JONES COUNTY LINE.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST TOWERD POLLOCKSVILLE AT 50 MPH.
 
 
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW
CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE
STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMOnslow39 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991

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.