Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2002, 2:34 PM EST for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 31, 2002, 2:34 PM EST (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:45 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Clinton, NC |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
456 WFUS52 KRAH 311934 TORRAH NCC163-312000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 233 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SAMPSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 233 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSEBORO...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... SALEMBURG ROSEBORO HOBBTON CLINTON 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. $$ WSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 2:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 6:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 85 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.