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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC

February 26, 1992Duplin County, Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 1992, 12:18 PM EST for Duplin County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 1992, 12:18 PM EST (17:18 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 1992, 1:15 PM EST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Duplin County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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 12:00Z on 1992-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 261718
TORILM
NCC133-061-261815-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1218 PM EST WED FEB 26 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ONSLOW COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DUPLIN COUNTY
 
AT 1215 RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN THE SOUTH PART OF DUPLIN COUNTY
NEAR WALLACE. THE TORNADO IS MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH AND WILL LIKELY
ENTER ONSLOW COUNTY NEAR JACKSONVILLE.
 
 
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
Feb 26, 11:14 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen46 min
Feb 26, 11:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMSampson25 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.