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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 4, 1993Edgecombe County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1993, 7:40 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1993, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1993, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Edgecombe County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 1626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 12.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 042340
TORRDU
NCC065-050045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
740 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EDGECOMBE COUNTY
 
AT 740 PM NASH COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
AT SUNSET AVENUE ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE CITY OF ROCKY MOUNT. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
 
TORNADOES AT NIGHT CAN BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. A ROARING TRAIN-LIKE
NOISE MAY BE YOUR ONLY HINT OF AN APPROACHING TORNADO.  GET TO A
STURDY SHELTER NOW...A SMALL MIDDLE ROOM OR CLOSET...AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND EXTERIOR WALLS. IF DAMAGE OCCURS...AVOID WALKING AROUND
IN THE DARK.  DOWNED POWER LINES AND FALLEN DEBRIS CAN INJURE YOU.
 
 
 
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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, Jun 4, 7:29 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
729 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
717 EDT        GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN THE TOWN OF
               RICH SQUARE. REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

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         CITIZEN.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:32 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
729 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
717 EDT        GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN THE TOWN OF
               RICH SQUAREr. REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:33 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
732 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
730 EDT        FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR INTERSECTION OF I-40 AND HARRISON AVE.
               IN CARY MOVIxNG EAST SOUTHEAST REPORTED BY SECURITY OFFICIAL.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:38 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
738 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
737 EDT        DIME SIZED HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF GOLD ROCK IN NASH COUNTY.
               REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTER.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:38 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
736 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
732 EDT        50 TO 60 MPH WIND IN ROCKY MOUNT.  TREES DOWN IN SEVERAL
               LOCATIONS.  |REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTER.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:39 PM EDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
738 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
737 EDT        DIME SIZED HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF GOLD ROCK IN NASH COUNTY.
               REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SKYWARN SPOTTER.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	55 min
Jun 4, 6:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Warren	38 min
Jun 4, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	46 min
Jun 4, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	64 min
Jun 4, 6:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Person	54 min
Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	58 min
Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance	58 min
Jun 4, 7:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Halifax	34 min
Jun 4, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash, Wake	67 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Orange	35 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham	45 min
Jun 4, 7:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wake	53 min
Jun 4, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Franklin, Nash	42 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wilson	55 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.