Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2001, 2:42 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 18, 2001, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Fairmont, NC | A NWS site damage assessment determined a F0 tornado touched down on Broadridge Road, 1 1/2 miles off of Hwy 74W, six miles east of Fairmont. It lifted a shed and carried it 15 yards. Metal roofing was torn from a horse barn and a porch. A chain link fence |
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, 6.7 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
- 1407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
819 WFUS52 KILM 181842 TORILM NCC155-181915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 242 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 237 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BARNESVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF LUMBERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FAIRMONT AT 245 PM EDT THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END $$ DIGIORGI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 39 min |
| Aug 18, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.