Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1998, 5:42 PM EDT for Vance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 18 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, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vance County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Townsville, NC | Thunderstorm wind knocked down several trees along Highway 39 in Townsville. |
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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 162142 RRA TORRDU NCC181-162200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 542 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN VANCE COUNTY * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 540 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWNSVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TOWNSVILLE BY 545 PM KERR LAKE NORTHEAST OF TOWNSVILLE BY 555 PM GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! 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, Jun 16, 4:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
410 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM WINSTON SALEM NC WIND DAMAGE
06/16/98 FORSYTH TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES
NEAR CITY LIMITS NE SECTOR
OF WINSTON SALEM...
REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:24 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
524 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM ROXBORO NC WIND DAMAGE
06/16/98 PERSON TREES DOWN IN ROXBORO
REPORTED BY POLICE DEPT.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, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 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.