Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1998, 5:13 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 16, 1998, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Granville County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Berea, NC | Numerous trees were downed in the Berea section of Granville county. A funnel cloud was also observed but reports indicate that the funnel cloud never reached the ground. |
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 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 22 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Vance | 18 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.