Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1991, 6:07 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1991, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1991, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robeson County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILM 102208 RRA TORILM NCC155-102315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 607 PM EDT SAT AUG 10 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...ROBESON COUNTY AT 604 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN ROBESON COUNTY. THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SIGHTED ALONG I-95 NEAR ROLAND. RADAR SHOWS THE STORMS IN THAT AREA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. 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.t DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH
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, Aug 10, 3:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NCZ001-002-017-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC 330 PM EDT SAT AUG 10 1991 AT 325 PM EDT...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM NEAR BELHAVEN...AND FOLLOWED THE WEST BANK OF THE PAMLICO SOUND TO STUMPY POINT...ACROSS TO THE OUTER BANKS AT THE VILLIAGE OF RODANTHE...TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES ...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. MARINERS ON THE PAMLICO SOUND BETWEEN ENGLEHARD TO RODANTHE SHOULD HEAD SOUTH FOR SAFE HARBOR...OR BE PREPARED FOR ROUGH WEATHER. OFFSHORE BOATERS PLANNING TO RETURN VIA OREGON INLET SHOULD DELAY UNTIL THESE THUNDERSTORMS CLEAR THE AREA. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL DEVELOPING...DETERMINING AN EXACT MOVEMENT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE. IT APPEARS THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AS THE ENTIRE SYSTEM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF THIS MOVEMENT IS CORRECT...THE SOUTH PORTION OF THE PAMLICO SOUND AND THE SOUTH PORTION OF HATTERAS ISLAND CAN EXPECT THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 8TO REACH THE AREA BY 430 PM EDT. VISITORS ON THE EXPOSED BEACHES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. INSIDE A VEHICLE WILL PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
NCZ001-002-017-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC 430 PM EDT SAT AUG 10 1991 AT 425 PM EDT...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LAY ALONG THE WEST BANK OF THE PAMLICO SOUND FROM BELHAVEN TO SWANQUARTER...TO STUMPY POINT... ACROSS THE SOUND TO RODANTHE...TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE. THE STRONGEST CONCENTRATION OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN THE PAMLICO SOUND BETWEEN SWANQUARTER AND STUMPY POINT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES ...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. MARINERS ON THE PAMLICO SOUND BETWEEN ENGLEHARD TO RODANTHE SHOULD HEAD SOUTH FOR SAFE HARBOR...OR BE PREPARED FOR ROUGH WEATHER. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR...AS THE ENTIRE SYSTEM MOVED SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. VISITORS ON THE EXPOSED BEACHES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER AS THESE STORMS APPROpACH. INSIDE A VEHICLE WILL PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM LIGHTNING. AT THE CURRENT MOVEMENT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE SOUTH PORTION OF HATTERAS ISLAND BY 600 PM EDT...AND THE NORTH PORTION OF OCRACOKE ISLAND BY 630.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.