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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 29, 1996Johnston County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1996, 7:50 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1996, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Johnston County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 29, 7:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Kenly, NC
May 29, 8:05 PM EDT	Hail	Kenly, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 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 KRDU 292352 COR
TORRDU
NCC101-300030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING ...CORRECTION FOR TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
750 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN JOHNSTON COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY
PRODUCING A TORNADO IN NORTHERN JOHNSTON COUNTY ABOUT 5 TO 7 MILES NORTH
OF SELMA. THIS STORM IS TRACKING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST TOWARD KENLY
AND INTERSTATE 95..
 
 
PEOPLE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ACT NOW TO PROTECT THEIR
LIVES. GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR...A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET.
COVER YOUR HEAD. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES AND INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH.  REPORT DAMAGE
TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEA(THER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	37 min
May 29, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	43 min
May 29, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	44 min
May 29, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	38 min
May 29, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	39 min
May 29, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	29 min
May 29, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	38 min
May 29, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond	29 min
May 29, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	22 min
May 29, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	15 min
May 29, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	39 min
May 29, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash	27 min
May 29, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance	25 min
May 29, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	33 min
May 29, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wake	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.