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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 3, 2000Granville County, Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2000, 7:34 PM EDT for Granville County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
Jun 3, 2000, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Granville County, NC, Wake County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 342 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 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.

546 
WFUS52 KRAH 032335
TORRDU
NCC077-183-040000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
734 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CREEDMOOR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   PURNELL AT 755 PM EDT
   WAKE FOREST AT 805 PM EDT

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 3620 7866 3612 7884 3595 7869 3595 7845

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett45 min
Jun 3, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett32 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake29 min
Jun 3, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston34 min
Jun 3, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland28 min
Jun 3, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland27 min
Jun 3, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson35 min
Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth31 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake43 min
Jun 3, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston30 min
Jun 3, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford, Randolph43 min
Jun 3, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson47 min
Jun 3, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville28 min
Jun 3, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland29 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne43 min
Jun 3, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville36 min
Jun 3, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett33 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson32 min
Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville, Vance46 min
Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett23 min
Jun 3, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake47 min
Jun 3, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Granville45 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake49 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.