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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 29, 1999Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1999, 7:11 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 29, 1999, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 1999, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

268 
WFUS1 KRDU 292312 RRA
TORRDU
NCC167-300000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
711 PM EDT WED SEP 29 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STANLY COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 708 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE
  SEEN A   TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF LOCUST... MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FINGER AROUND 730 PM

  ALBEMARLE & PLYLER AROUND 740 PM

  DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
  BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

  KK/WSS

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.

NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 29, 1:00 PM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 1:00 PM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
100 PM EDT WED SEP 29 1999

MODELS IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH COMING FROPA. ALL TAKE MAJORITY
OF MOISTURE AND ENERGY TO OUR NORTH AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. THIS IS
GOOD NEWS. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE SATURATED SOILS...WILL KEEP THE FFA
IN PLACE FOR EASTERN HALF...SINCE ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF RAIN IS
NEEDED TO CREATE PROBLEMS. THE ACTION SHOULD BE OVER BY DAYBREAK
WITH CLEARING SKIES BY PM.

.RAH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT
CUMBERLAND..DURHAM..EDGECOMBE..FRANKLIN..GRANVILLE..HALIFAX..
HARNETT..HOKE..JOHNSTON..LEE..NASH..SAMPSON..SCOTLAND..WAKE..
WARREN..WAYNE..WILSON..VANCE

GL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 29, 6:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
609 PM EDT WED SEP 29 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    LOCUST                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
09/29/99   STANLY                         ROOF DAMAGE IN
                                          LOCUST...REPORT FROM EMA.

Local storm report, Sep 29, 6:45 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
645 PM EDT WED SEP 29 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    LOCUST                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
09/29/99   STANLY                         ROOF DAMAGE IN
                                          LOCUST...REPORT FROM EMA.

0625 PM    ALBEMARLE                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
09/29/99   STANLY                         3 MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED.

0635 PM    ALBEMARLE                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
09/29/99   STANLY                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. TRUCK
                                          PICKED UP AND MOVED BY
                                          WIND.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 29, 11:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Montgomery	2 hr
Sep 29, 4:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Anson	3 hr
Sep 29, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Richmond	2 hr
Sep 29, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	35 min
Sep 29, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	32 min
Sep 29, 6:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Stanly	34 min
Sep 29, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery	35 min
Sep 29, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	47 min
Sep 29, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Montgomery	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.