Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Wilson 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Wilson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:35 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Pinetops, NC | |
| Jun 3, 7:49 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Elm City, 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -513 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
119 WFUS1 KRDU 032326 RRA TORRDU NCC065-195-040000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 725 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY NORTHERN WILSON COUNTY * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 723 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR ELM CITY ... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEAR BRIDGERSVILLE AROUND 730 PM NEAR SAINT LEWIS AROUND 735 PM NEAR CRISP AROUND 740 PM GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR JWC
The 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, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 31 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 |
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.