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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 5, 1992Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1992, 12:59 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1992, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1992, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Nash County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-06-05Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 051701
TORRDU
NCC069-127-051800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1259 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NASH COUNTY
 
AT 1PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR JUSTICE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
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 Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 12:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin65 min
Jun 5, 12:59 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin21 min
Jun 5, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWarren42 min
Jun 5, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston41 min
Jun 5, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax52 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.