Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2002, 7:13 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 5, 2002, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnston County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Selma, NC | A downburst caused several blocks of damage in Selma. Several trees were uprooted, and some homes were slightly damaged. A portion of a roof on a school was blown off. The greatest damage was within 10 city blocks of Green Street. |
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
293 WFUS52 KRAH 052313 TORRAH NCC101-052345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 713 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JOHNSTON COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 713 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF SELMA...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF SMITHFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PRINCETON AT 725 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. $$ DGS/JC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 12 min |
| Jul 5, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wake | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 7:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wilson | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 7:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston | 2 hr |
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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.