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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Raleigh, NC

November 4, 1992Johnston County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1992, 7:01 PM EST for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 4, 1992, 7:01 PM EST (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Nov 4, 1992, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Johnston County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 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 050002
TORRDU
NCC101-050045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
701 PM EST WED NOV 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...JOHNSTON COUNTY
 
AT 655 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN EASTERN HARNETT COUNTY NEAR DUNN.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND IS MOVING INTO WESTERN
JOHNSTON COUNTY.
 
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. TAKE COVER N^OW!  WHEN
SAFE TO DO SO...REPORT DAMAGES TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS PROMPTLY.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, Nov 4, 6:17 PM EST, 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
617 PM EST WED NOV 04 1992

TIME           EVENT

538 PM EST     FORT BRAGG OFFICALS REPORTED A TORNADO ON
               MANCHESTER ROAD IN THE

Local storm report, Nov 4, 6:56 PM EST, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
654 PM EST WED NOV 04 1992

TIME           EVENT

649 PM EST    CUMBERLAND COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED
              TORNADO ON HIGHWAY 13\ NEAR I-95 IN NORTHEAST PART
              OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
HLW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 4, 8:02 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wayne	43 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.