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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 15, 1996Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1996, 1:58 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
Apr 15, 1996, 1:58 PM EDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 15, 2:00 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Spring Lake, NC
Apr 15, 2:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Linden, 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-15Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 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
819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke47 min
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash42 min
Apr 15, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett46 min
Apr 15, 2:02 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett28 min
Apr 15, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston36 min
Apr 15, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland39 min
Apr 15, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake29 min
Apr 15, 6:16 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWake29 min
Apr 15, 6:22 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin38 min
Apr 15, 6:31 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett29 min
Apr 15, 6:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWake34 min
Apr 15, 6:50 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin40 min
Apr 15, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHNash59 min
Apr 15, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax45 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.