Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2001, 7:05 PM EDT for Hertford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 1, 2001, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hertford County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ahoskie, NC | Trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KAKQ 012306 TORAKQ NCC091-012330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 705 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HERTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF MAPLETON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR MAPLETON AND BRANTLEYS GROVE AT 710 PM OAK VILLA AND BARRETTS CROSSROADS AT 715 PM WINTON AND COFIELD AT 720 PM TUNIS AT 725 PM BARTONSVILLE AND RIDDICKSVILLE AT 730 PM GO TO A BTASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ REILLY &&
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 36 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.