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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 27, 1994Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:52 PM EDT for Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1994, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1994, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 935 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILG 271852 RRA
TORILG
DEC001-005-271945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON DE
252 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL DELAWARE
 
   ...KENT COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH DELAWARE
 
   ...SUSSEX COUNTY
 
...TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL SUSSEX AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENT
COUNTY...
 
WEATHER RADAR INDICATES THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN NORTH
CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENT COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
TOWNSjEND
 
 
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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 27, 10:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 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 24 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, 4 hours 4 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 44 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 41 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, 2:48 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
248 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

TIME           EVENT

212 PM EDT    CHOWAN COUNTY EOC REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED JUST
              EAST OF THE ALBEMARLE SOUND BRIDGE MOVING EAST

223 PM EDT    CITIZENS REPORTED TO DARE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS...
              WATERSPOUTS ON THE ALBEMARLE SOUND NORTH OF MANNS
              HARBOR.

DCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Kent, Sussex	60 min
Jun 27, 1:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Kent, Sussex	61 min
Jun 27, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Sussex	61 min
Jun 27, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Kent	63 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.