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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 27, 2002Sampson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2002, 9:48 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 2002, 9:48 PM EDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2002, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Sampson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2002-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2002-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

960 
WFUS52 KRAH 280148
TORRAH
NCC163-280215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
947 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 947 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL SAMPSON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES EAST OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  SOUTH OF SPIVEYS CORNER
  MIDWAY 

TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO
SEE. TAKE COVER NOW IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 3515 7873 3498 7866 3505 7832 3527 7841

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 8:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHCumberland2 hr
Aug 27, 9:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHJohnston106 min
Aug 28, 1:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHCumberland3 hr
Aug 28, 2:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHSampson3 hr
Aug 28, 2:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHSampson3 hr
Aug 28, 7:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHEdgecombe2 hr
Aug 28, 7:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHEdgecombe2 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.