Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 10:31 AM EDT for Durham County, Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
- May 25, 2000, 10:31 AM EDT (14:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Durham County, NC, Orange County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| May 25, 10:55 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Durham, NC | 1 shed was smashed and 3 homes had moderate to extensive damage from fallen trees. |
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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
107 WFUS52 KRAH 251433 TORRDU NCC063-135-251500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1031 AM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADEO WARNING FOR... DURHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1100 AM EDT * AT 1031 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER HILLSBOROUGH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GORMAN...BETHESDA AT 1040 AM EDT TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3623 7910 3589 7914 3594 7870 3617 7879
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, 10:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 32 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.