Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1998, 6:34 PM EDT for Franklin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Centerville, NC |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
842 WFUS1 KRDU 032236 RRA TORRDU NCC069-032305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 634 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY * UNTIL 705 PM EDT * AT 632 PM ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKY FORD ... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BETWEEN INGLESIDE AND MITCHINERS CROSSROADS AROUND 640 PM NEAR LOUISBURG AROUND 650 PM AROUND STALLINGS CROSSROADS BY 7 PM GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR JWC
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, Jun 3, 5:57 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
557 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0549 PM NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98 PERSON GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SKYWARN ON
NC49 N ON GRANVILLE/PERSON
COUNTY LINE
0550 PM NC 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/03/98 PERSON TREES DOWN ON EPHESUS
CHURCH RD ABOUT 5 MI N OF
HYCO DAMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 17 min |
| Jun 3, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 35 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.