Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1998, 1:51 AM EST for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 9, 1998, 1:51 AM EST (06:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1998, 2:25 AM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:55 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Salemburg, NC | A thunderstorm produced a pair of microbursts 5 miles east of Salemburg in Sampson county. On Bearskin Road, a double-wide trailer was rolled over and off the foundation. The trailer was completely destroyed. Other trailers in the same area, one just a few |
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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 628 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
819 WFUS1 KRDU 090648 RRA TORRDU NCC163-090725- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 151 AM EST MON MAR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR SAMPSON COUNTY * UNTIL 225 AM EST SAMPSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR ROSEBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR SLAEMBURG AND TO THE NORTH OF CLINTON BY 215 AM. * IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM, TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR AND INNER MOST ROOM OF A BUILDING. 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. RAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 115 min |
| Mar 9, 2:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 2:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wilson | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 2:52 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| Mar 9, 3:02 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 33 min |
| Mar 9, 3:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 33 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.