Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 1:43 PM EDT for Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 19, 2000, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Orange County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Carrboro, NC | Numerous reports of funnel clouds along Highway 54. Public reported brief touchdown but no damage. |
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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
132 WFUS52 KRAH 191743 TORRDU NCC135-191815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 143 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ORANGE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 143 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF TEER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF CHAPEL HILL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... CARRBORO CHAPEL HILL HILLSBOROUGH TEER 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 3599 7931 3587 7916 3592 7902 3614 7898
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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.