Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 7:17 PM EDT for Granville County, Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 18 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 7:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Granville County, NC, Person County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Hyco, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
329 WFUS52 KRAH 282317 TORRAH NCC077-145-282335- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 716 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GRANVILLE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA PERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 735 PM EDT * AT 716 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF ROXBORO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OAK HILL AT 725 PM EDT BEREA...OXFORD AT 730 PM EDT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 27 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.