Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1996, 6:50 PM EDT for Franklin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 15, 1996, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 152253 TORRDU NCC069-152330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 650 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 650 PM EDT...FRANKLIN COUNTY EMERGENCY OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR PILOT ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF BUNN. THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AROUND 25 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.
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, Apr 15, 5:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
517 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
TIME COUNTY/CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
450 PM WAKE CNTY NR FROM CTY 911... SEVERAL TREES DOWN WITHn
NEW HILL NC SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
455 PM WAKE CNTY NC SKYWARN... ONE HOUSE DAMAGED, POWER LINES
DOWN, NEAR SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR PWR PLANT.
KRCLocal storm report, Apr 15, 6:06 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
603 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
TIME COUNTY/CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
557 PM FROM SKYWARN RADIO OPERATORS - DIME SIZE HAIL WITH
TREES DOWN FROM WINDS...ON GRASSHOPER RD IN EXTREME
ERN WAKE COUNTY NEAR JOHNSTON COUNTY LINE.
KKLocal storm report, Apr 15, 6:21 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
618 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
TIME COUNTY/CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
615 PM WAKE COUNTY NC TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE GROUND BY LAW
ZEBULON ENFORCEMENT AND SEVERAL SKYWARN SPOTTERS.
KRCLocal storm report, Apr 15, 6:27 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
626 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
TIME COUNTY/CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
620 PM WAKE COUNTY NC ROOF DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES FROM A
ZEBULON TORNADO...AT HIGHWAY 96 AND GRRENPACE
ROAD....PER WAKE COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANGAMENT
KKLocal storm report, Apr 15, 6:35 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
634 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
TIME COUNTY/CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
630 PM WAKE COUNTY NC TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR WENDELL IN
WENDELL ERN WAKE COUNTY...PER WAKE COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANGAMENT
KKLocal storm report, Apr 15, 6:46 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
640 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
TIME COUNTY/CITY STATE EVENT/REMARKS
630 PM WAKE COUNTY NC 1 FATALITY FROM TORNADO...IN A
ZEBULON MOBILE HOME...PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
ON THE SCENE
644 PM WAKE COUNTY NC A SECOND TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN
ZEBULON ZEBULON IN EASTERN WAKE COUNTY PER
WAKE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANGEMENT
KKThe 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, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.