Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 6:03 PM EDT for Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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 15, 1999, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:05 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Arcola, NC | Golfballl to hen egg sized hail was reported by the Warren county Emergency Manager in Arcola. Damage was limited to several sections of town but included banged up siding on homes, broken windows, car damage, and roof damage. Several cabbage fields were repor |
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Warrenton, NC | An 80 foot tall communications tower was toppled by thunderstorm winds near Warrenton. |
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KRDU 152210 RRB TORRDU NCC185-152255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION WARNING FOR WARREN TORNADO WARNING COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 603 PM EDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WARREN COUNTY * UNTIL 655 PM EDT * AT AT 605 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO EXTREME SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY... MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEAR INEZ 610 PM EDT NEAR GROVE HILL 620 PM EDT TAKE COVER NOW GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
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, Apr 15, 5:45 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
445 PM EST THU APR 15 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0541 PM HENDERSON NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/15/99 VANCE VANCE COUNTY 911 OPERATOR
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
SOUTHWEST OF HENDERSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 6:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 30 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.