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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Raleigh, NC

November 4, 1992Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1992, 6:07 PM EST for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 4, 1992, 6:07 PM EST (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Nov 4, 1992, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 042309
TORRDU
NCC051-050000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
607 PM EST WED NOV 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHERN CUMBERLAND
COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE JUST NORTH
OF FAYETTEVILLE.
 
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW CLOUDS
...AND TREES. OFTEN YOUR ONLY WARNING WILL BE A LOUD ROARING SOUND
AND FLYING DEBRIS. BUT THAT MAY BE TOO LATE. T AKE COVER NOW!  WHEN
SAFE TO DO SO...REPORT DAMAGES TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS PROMPTLY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 4, 4:16 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Johnston	44 min
Nov 4, 4:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Nash, Wilson	50 min
Nov 4, 5:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Scotland	35 min
Nov 4, 5:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore	50 min
Nov 4, 5:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett, Lee	49 min
Nov 4, 5:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Johnston	40 min

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.