Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1998, 10:15 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 15 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
- May 26, 1998, 10:15 PM EDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 26, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
445 WFUS1 KRDU 270216 RRA TORRDU NCC125-270230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1015 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN MOORE COUNTY * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 1012 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROBBINS NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF HIGHFALLS. .. MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AREAS EAST NORTHEAST OF ROBBINS INCLUDING COMMUNITIES OF GLENDON AND PARKWOOK BY 1030 PM ABANDON MOBILE HOMES GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. RFG
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, May 26, 8:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
859 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0757 PM LEWISVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/98 FORSYTH DIME SIZE HAIL IN
LEWISVILLE
0834 PM WALLBURG NC WIND DAMAGE
05/26/98 DAVIDSON TWELVE INCH FIR TREE
REPORTED DOWN IN WALLBURG
0834 PM LEXINGTON NC WIND DAMAGE
05/26/98 DAVIDSON TREES DOWN ON GUM TREE
ROAD IN NORTHERN DAVISON
COUNTY NORTH OF LEXINGTONLocal storm report, May 26, 9:39 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
939 PM EDT TUE MAY 26 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM WINSTON SALEM NC WIND DAMAGE
05/26/98 FORSYTH MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED ON
BARNS ROAD AND SOUTHERN
MAIN...SOUTH OF WINSTON
SALEM...JUST NORTH OF THE
DAVIDSON COUNTY LINEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 32 min |
| 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, 10:29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.