Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1999, 5:42 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 14, 1999, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1999, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
821 WFUS1 KRDU 142144 RRA TORRDU NCC163-142215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 542 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 540 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NORTH OF AUTRYVILLE ON THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY BORDER... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SALEMBURG AND KEENER BY 600 PM EDT IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. RA
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 Aug 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 315 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999 STRONG TO SEVERE CONVECTION HAS FIRED RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE PIEDMONT WITH SEVERAL WARNINGS HAVING BEEN ISSUED AND THE SEVERE TSTM WATCH IN PLACE UNTIL 9 PM. WILL CONTINUE POPS CWA-WIDE... THROUGH EARLY EVENING IN NW PIEDMONT AND MAINLY EVENING ELSEWHERE. FRONT ALONG THE SPINE OF THE NC MTNS AT 19Z & MAKING SLOW EASTWARD PROGRESS. AS UPPER TROUGH PUSHES EASTWARD... EXPECT FRONT TO SHIFT THROUGH THE PIEDMONT INTO THE NRN COASTAL PLAIN AND SANDHILLS BY DAYBREAK SUNDAY. NCEP COMPUTER TROUBLES PERSIST SO ONLY THE NGM IS AVAILABLE. UPPER TROUGH AXIS LINGERS OVER CENTRAL NC DURING THE DAY SUNDAY... AND WHILE THE BEST MOISTURE PUSHES EASTWARD TO THE ERN HALF OF THE STATE... FRONTAL BOUNDARY MAY STILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR SCATTERED TSTMS SUN... SO WILL INCLUDE POPS IN THE EASTERN CWA TOMORROW AFTN & EVENING. UPPER RIDGING BUILDS BACK IN STRONGLY FROM THE WEST BY MONDAY MORNING... WHICH WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL NC FOR MON INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD. BOUNDARY LINGERS OVER FAR SERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA MON... BUT FOR NOW WILL LEAVE OUT POPS IN THIS AREA FOR MON. BRIEF MINOR COOL-DOWN EXPECTED & MAINLY IN NW SECTIONS SUNDAY. WILL NOT STRAY FAR FROM NGM MOS. .RAH...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALL OF CENTRAL NC UNTIL 9 PM. HARTFIELD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 12:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-142300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1230 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999 ...HOT AND HUMID WEATHER AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. ABUNDANT SUNSHINE WILL ALLOW MERCURY LEVELS TO CLIMB WELL INTO THE 90S THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PUSH HEAT INDEX VALUES TOWARD THE DANGER CATEGORY. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM AROUND 100 TO 105 DEGREES AND MAY EXCEED 105 DEGREES FOR A BRIEF PERIOD DURING THE HEAT OF THE DAY. THE HIGHEST HEAT INDICES WILL BE ACROSS THE FAR NORTHEAST PIEDMONT... THE SANDHILLS AND THE COASTAL PLAIN... INCLUDING THE TRIANGLE... FAYETTEVILLE... CLINTON AND GOLDSBORO. THE HEAT INDEX VALUE TELLS HOW HOT IT FEELS WHEN THE EFFECTS OF HUMIDITY ARE COMBINED WITH THE TEMPERATURE. THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE HOT AND HUMID WEATHER. DRINK PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC FLUIDS...ESPECIALLY WATER... AND LIMIT SUN EXPOSURE. CHILDREN...THE ELDERLY AND PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC AILMENTS SHOULD BE CHECKED ON FREQUENTLY AS THEY ARE THE FIRST TO SUFFER FROM THE HEAT. MAKE SURE THEY ARE KEEPING ADEQUATELY COOL. KEEP PETS IN THE SHADE AND GIVE THEM PLENTY OF WATER TO DRINK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GIH
Local storm report, Aug 14, 2:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
244 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0243 PM WADESBORO NC .88 INCH HAIL
08/14/99 ANSON ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG
GUSTY WINDSLocal storm report, Aug 14, 4:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
432 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM UNION RIDGE NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 ALAMANCE SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN ACROSS NORTHWEST
ALAMANCE COUNTY.
0220 PM SOUTHMONT NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 DAVIDSON SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF
OF DAVIDSON COUNTY.
0243 PM WADESBORO NC .88 INCH HAIL
08/14/99 ANSON ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS
0250 PM MORVEN NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 ANSON SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED
ACROSS SOUTHEAST ANSON
COUNTY.
0300 PM ROCKINGHAM NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 RICHMOND TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
ROCKINGHAM.
0300 PM MORVEN NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 ANSON FUNNEL CLOUD AND WIND
DAMAGE TO TREES AROUND
MORVEN.Local storm report, Aug 14, 4:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
432 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 PM UNION RIDGE NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 ALAMANCE SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN ACROSS NORTHWEST
ALAMANCE COUNTY.
0220 PM SOUTHMONT NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 DAVIDSON SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED
ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF
OF DAVIDSON COUNTY.
0243 PM WADESBORO NC .88 INCH HAIL
08/14/99 ANSON ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS
0250 PM MORVEN NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 ANSON SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED
ACROSS SOUTHEAST ANSON
COUNTY.
0300 PM ROCKINGHAM NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 RICHMOND TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
ROCKINGHAM.
0300 PM MORVEN NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 ANSON FUNNEL CLOUD AND WIND
DAMAGE TO TREES AROUND
MORVEN.Local storm report, Aug 14, 5:21 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
521 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM DUNDARRACH NC WIND DAMAGE
08/14/99 HOKE NUMEROUS TREES DOWN SW OF
DUNDARRACH NEAR S COUNTY
LINE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Richmond | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee, Moore | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 35 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.