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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 5, 1995Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 1995, 7:41 AM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 5, 1995, 7:41 AM EDT (11:41 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 1995, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 00:00Z on 1995-10-05Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1995-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 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 KILM 051141 COR
TORILM
NCC155-051200-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
741 AM EDT THU OCT 5 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

   ...NORTHERN ROBESON
 
AT 739 AM EDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON DOPPLER
RADAR...IT WAS NEAR ST. PAULS MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE AROUND...
          PARKTON                 BY 749 AM EDT

THIS STORM WILL THEN MOVE QUICKLY OUT OF ROBESON COUNTY BY 8 AM.
THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL
740 AM.

 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 6:52 AM EDTTornado WarningILMRobeson48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.