Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 1999, 1:43 PM EDT for Gates County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 11, 1999, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1999, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gates County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Gatesville, NC | Glass blown out of bank sign. Several 12-15 inch diameter pines blown down. Porch and roof of a trailer blown away. |
| Apr 11, 2:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunbury, NC | Several trees down on Route 158. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates | 31 min |
| Apr 11, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 49 min |
| Apr 11, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 47 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.