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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 29, 1996Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1996, 7:58 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1996, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wake County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 292359
TORRDU
NCC183-300030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
758 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 NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN WAKE COUNTY
 
SPOTTERS REPORT A TORNADO NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BETHLEHEM AND POOLE
ROADS IN EASTERN WAKE COUNTY MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
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 WEATHER SERVICE.
 
 
 
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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, May 29, 7:31 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
731 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0728 PM    ZEBULON                   NC   1 INCH HAIL
05/29/96   WAKE

Local storm report, May 29, 7:41 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
741 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0723 PM                              NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/29/96   GUILFORD                       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES
                                          N OF LIBERTY

Local storm report, May 29, 7:45 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
745 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0725 PM                              NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/29/96   RICHMOND                       DOWN TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES. HWY 1 SOUTH IN
                                          SOUTHERN RICHMOND CO.

Local storm report, May 29, 7:54 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
753 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 PM              0                NC   1 INCH HAIL NORTHERN
05/29/96   JOHNSTON                       JOHNSTON COUNTY FROM
                                          WRAL TV

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, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Johnston	40 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.