Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1996, 6:16 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Wendell, 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, 10.3 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 152219 TORRDU NCC183-152245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 616 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...EASTERN WAKE COUNTY AT 615 PM...ZEBULON POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN ZEBULON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AROUND 30 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 28 min |
| Apr 15, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 45 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.