Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 8:53 PM EDT for Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Person County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2013 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 090053 TORRDU NCC145-090130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 853 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHWESTERN PERSON COUNTY AT 852 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST PERSON COUNTY NEAR HESTER'S STORE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSON COUNTY HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT 952 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. &
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
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
NCZ007-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH-DURHAM NC 515 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 AT 510 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF WOODSDALE. THE STORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF PERSON COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 600 PM. THIS STORM WILL CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ANYONE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. SGY
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
NCZ007-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH-DURHAM NC 515 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 AT 510 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF WOODSDALE. THE STORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF PERSON COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 600 PM. THIS STORM WILL CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...A*ND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ANYONE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. SGY
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NCZ022-039-021-038-090045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 749 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD WINSTON-SALEM... AT 745 PM ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD WINSTON-SALEM IN FORSYTH COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN DAVIDSON AND SOUTHWEST GUILFORD COUNTY BY 815 PM. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE FORSYTH COUNTY AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE FURTHER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 32 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.