Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1998, 7:36 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 19, 1998, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 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 192336 RRA TORRDU NCC183-200010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 736 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAKE COUNTY * UNTIL 810 PM EDT * AT 737 PM EDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO IN FUQUAY-VARINA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GARNER AND SOUTHEAST RALEIGH IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GL
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 19, 5:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
559 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM BURLINGTON NC WIND DAMAGE
04/19/98 ALAMANCE TREE DOWN AND UNDERPINNING
BLOWN OUT UNDER A TRAILER
AT PAGETOWN RD NW OF
BURLINGTONLocal storm report, Apr 19, 6:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
634 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM NC WIND DAMAGE
04/19/98 ALAMANCE SEVERAL TREES DOWN AND
MINOR OUTBUILDING DAMAGE
IN NORTH CENTRAL PART OF
COUNTYSpecial weather statement, Apr 19, 6:40 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
NCZ021>023-038-039-073-192310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 640 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH CLEARED FOR PORTIONS OF THE PIEDMONT... TORNADO WATCH 248 HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR FORSYTH...GUILFORD... ALAMANCE...DAVIDSON...RANDOLPH AND STANLY COUNTIES. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED FOR THE EVENING. JBM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 22 min |
| Apr 19, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 32 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.