Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1998, 8:08 PM EDT for Davidson County, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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
- May 26, 1998, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 8:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davidson County, NC, Forsyth County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Winston Salem, NC | Several mobile homes were damaged by strong thunderstorm wind 2 miles north of the Davidson county line in southern Forsyth county. Trees were also uprooted and damaged in the same area. |
| May 26, 8:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Wallburg, NC | Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in north and northeast Davidson county. Trees were uprooted in the Wallburg area east to the Guilford county line. |
| May 26, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lexington, NC | Several trees were uprooted and snapped off in the city of Lexington. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 270008 RRA TORRDU NCC057-067-270040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 808 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY SOUTHERN FORSYTH COUNTY * UNTIL 840 PM EDT * AT 805 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR CLEMMONS... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED T*O BE IN... AREAS BETWEEN WINSTON SALEM AND MIDWAY GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! RFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 34 min |
| May 26, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 34 min |
| May 26, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 16 min |
| May 26, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 15 min |
| May 26, 10:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 31 min |
| May 26, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 29 min |
| May 26, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 23 min |
| May 26, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 32 min |
| May 26, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 27 min |
| May 27, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| May 27, 12:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 36 min |
| May 27, 4:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 30 min |
| May 27, 5:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Vance, Warren | 32 min |
| May 27, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 34 min |
| May 27, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 32 min |
| May 27, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 32 min |
| May 27, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 35 min |
| May 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 27 min |
| May 27, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 37 min |
| May 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 34 min |
| May 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 35 min |
| May 27, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 35 min |
| May 27, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 34 min |
| May 27, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 35 min |
| May 27, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Richmond | 32 min |
| May 27, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.