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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Raleigh, NC

December 17, 2000Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Dec 17, 2000, 1:23 AM EST for Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 2000, 1:23 AM EST (06:23 UTC)
Expired: Dec 17, 2000, 2:00 AM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Halifax County, NC, Warren County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 17, 12:30 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 438 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 635 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 747 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KRAH 170625
TORRDU

NCC083-185-170700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
123 AM EST SUN DEC 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA
  HALIFAX COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 200 AM EST

* AT 123 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF ARCOLA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF   
  WARRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED    
  DIME SIZED HAIL AND DAMAGINGS WINDS ARE LIKELY.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   AIRLIE AT 140 AM EST
   LITTLETON AT 150 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 3622 7811 3617 7791 3648 7774 3655 7796

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 11:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	31 min
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.