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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Raleigh, NC

December 16, 2000Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 11:44 PM EST for Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2000, 11:44 PM EST (04:44 UTC)
Expired: Dec 17, 2000, 12:15 AM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 17, 12:00 AM EST	Tornado F0	Pope Afb, NC	Observers at Pope AFB reported a tornado moving northeast.
Dec 17, 12:10 AM EST	Tornado F0	Anderson Creek, NC	Windows were blown out of buildings at Ray Road and Hwy 210.

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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 553 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 579 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 170445
TORRDU

NCC051-085-170515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1144 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH HARNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA
  WEST CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1215 AM EST

* AT 1144 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BONNIE DOONE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH
  OF FORT BRAGG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   SPRING LAKE...POPE AFB...FAYETTEVILLE AT 1150 PM EST
   ANDERSON CREEK AT 1205 AM EST
   WADE AT 1210 AM EST
   LINDEN...GODWIN AT 1215 AM EST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3508 7915 3496 7900 3525 7861 3540 7881

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 12:09 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston	36 min
Dec 17, 12:33 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake	27 min
Dec 17, 12:57 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Franklin, Nash	33 min
Dec 17, 1:23 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	37 min
Dec 17, 2:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Orange	33 min
Dec 17, 2:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Person	27 min
Dec 17, 2:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	34 min
Dec 17, 2:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Richmond	29 min
Dec 17, 3:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	36 min
Dec 17, 3:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	24 min
Dec 17, 3:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	31 min
Dec 17, 4:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	29 min
Dec 17, 4:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	31 min
Dec 17, 5:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	18 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.