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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 15, 1992Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1992, 8:04 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1992, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Sussex County, DE

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 844 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
844 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILG 160008
TORILG
DEC005-160030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON DE
804 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTH DELAWARE
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN SUSSEX COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED NEAR SEAFORD NEAR RT 18 AND SUSSEX
COUNTY ROUTE 546. GET TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU SPOT THIS STORM.
THE TORNADO WILL PASS CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY OF ELLENDALE. THE TORNADO
WAS REPORTED MOVING EASTWARD. GET TO COVER NOW IF YOU LIVE IN ITS
PATH.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PpATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 8:18 PM EDTTornado WarningILMSussex42 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.