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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 8, 2000Granville County, Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2000, 4:21 PM EDT for Granville County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 8, 2000, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2000, 4:55 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Granville County, NC, Wake County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Creedmoor, NC	Trees blown down at Northside Road and Fleming Road.
Apr 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Raleigh, NC	Trees and power lines down across the Raleigh area.

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 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 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.

000 
WFUS52 KRAH 082021
TORRDU
NCC077-183-082055-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
421 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GRANVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA
  NORTHERN WAKE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 455 PM EDT

* AT 418 PM EDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF CREEDMOOR... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NORTHSIDE OF FALLS LAKE BY 421 PM EDT
  CREEDMOOR BY 425 PM EDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

WSS/PWB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	32 min
Apr 8, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Wake	30 min
Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance	31 min
Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	31 min
Apr 8, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	33 min
Apr 8, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Warren	33 min
Apr 8, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash	32 min
Apr 8, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	32 min
Apr 8, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	50 min
Apr 8, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	33 min
Apr 8, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 min
Apr 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	47 min
Apr 8, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	19 min
Apr 8, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 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.