Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 10:18 AM EDT for Alamance County, Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- May 25, 2000, 10:18 AM EDT (14:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 10:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alamance County, NC, Orange County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:48 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 M | Efland, NC | Numerous trees blown down. About 170 homes in the county were damaged. |
| May 25, 10:50 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Chapel Hill, NC | A Piper Cherokee crashed while trying to land at the Horance Williams Airport due to strong winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KRAH 251418 TORRDU NCC001-135-251450- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1018 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN ALAMANCE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1050 AM EDT * AT ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO . .. MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOVUR.. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 34 min |
| May 25, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 29 min |
| May 25, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 32 min |
| May 25, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Wake | 47 min |
| May 25, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance | 48 min |
| May 25, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 36 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 31 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.