Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 1998, 6:50 PM EST for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 20, 1998, 6:50 PM EST (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1998, 7:25 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Granville County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 6:55 PM EST | Tornado F2 | Berea, NC | This tornado occurred with the same parent thunderstorm that produced a tornado earlier in northeast Durham county. The tornado touched down in Berea on Highway 158. A brick ranch home sustained significant damage to the roof and garage. The next damage ap |
| Mar 20, 6:58 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Stovall, NC | Dime size hail fell in Stovall on Highway 15. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
908 WFUS1 KRDU 202351 RRA TORRDU NCC077-210025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 650 PM EST FRI MAR 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR GRANVILLE COUNTY * UNTIL 725 PM EST * THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT: STOVALL AND OXFORD. * BASIS FOR WARNING: AT 650 PM...RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSIFYING STORM NEAR BEREA MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY PEOPLE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ACT NOW TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. DELGADO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 3:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 4:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 35 min |
| Mar 20, 4:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 5:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 5:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 5:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 35 min |
| Mar 20, 6:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 6:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 6:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 6:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 29 min |
| Mar 20, 6:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 29 min |
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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.