Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 6:17 PM EDT for Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Halifax County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hollister, NC | Golfball size hail covered the ground from the Warren county line to I-95. The hail decreased in size to dimes east of I-95. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 2678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 152217 RRA TORRDU NCC083-152305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 617 PM EDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HALIFAX COUNTY * UNTIL 705 PM EDT * AT AT 615 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST NORTH OF ESSEX IN SOUTHWEST HALIFAX COUNTY... MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEAR HEATHSVILLE AT 625 PM NEAR HALIFAX AT 640 PM 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, 32 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, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 52 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.