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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 27, 1994Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:42 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Craven County, NC

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 27, 10:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1111 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 UNKNOWN     BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR TIME OF OCCURRENCE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1027 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 1010 AM EDT BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR TIME OF OCCURRENCE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1027 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 1010 AM EDT BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1048 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

TIME           EVENT

1024 AM EDT   PASQUOTANK COUNTY-
              ELIZABETH CITY COAST GUARD AIR STATION REPORTED A WIND
              GUST TO 50 KNOTS WITH THEIR WIND OBSERVING EQUIPMENT.

DCH
Local storm report, Jun 27, 11:08 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1108 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

TIME           EVENT

1000 AM EDT    WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST OF CRESWELL...POWER LINES                 TIME           AND TREES DOWN. NO TREE DIAMETER SPECIFIED.                      APPROXIMATED   REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS.

DCH
Local storm report, Jun 27, 11:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1111 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 UNKNOWN     BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBeaufort, Craven61 min
Jun 27, 10:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDuplin, Sampson68 min
Jun 27, 11:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBeaufort, Craven54 min
Jun 27, 12:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Duplin, Sampson59 min
Jun 27, 12:34 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBeaufort56 min
Jun 27, 12:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender63 min
Jun 27, 1:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMCraven58 min
Jun 27, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMCarteret57 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.