Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2002, 8:06 PM EDT for Nash County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 min. 4 reports 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
- May 13, 2002, 8:06 PM EDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nash County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Middlesex, NC | Trees blown down were blocking roads, and a tree fell onto a home. |
| May 13, 8:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Wilson, NC | Trees were blown down. |
| May 13, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bailey, NC | Several trees were blown down. |
| May 13, 8:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Wilson, NC | Trees were blown down along Exum Road. |
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 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KRAH 140006 SVRRAH NCC127-195-140030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 805 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NASH COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA WILSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 805 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF BAILEY...OR ABOUT OVER LINWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WILSON NASHVILLE ELM CITY BAILEY DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 14 min |
| May 13, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 14 min |
| May 13, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 36 min |
| May 13, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 28 min |
| May 13, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 42 min |
| May 13, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 32 min |
| May 13, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 46 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.