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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Raleigh, NC

October 11, 2002Edgecombe County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 2002, 1:13 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: Oct 11, 2002, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2002, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Edgecombe County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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
Oct 11, 1:38 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Conetoe, NC	A storm that had produced a tornado in Pitt County moved north into Edgecombe County, producing a separate tornado that caused damage to 9 homes in Conetoe. Shingles were blown off roofs, large trees were uprooted, and outbuildings were damaged.

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
Oct 11, 10:20 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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

299 
WFUS52 KRAH 111713
TORRAH
NCC065-111800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
113 PM EDT FRI OCT 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 113 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONETOE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF
  TARBORO...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  TARBORO
  SPEED
  PRINCEVILLE
  LEGGETT
  CONETOE

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

$$

LAT...LON 3565 7766 3561 7745 3597 7734 3605 7758

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 7:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham	117 min
Oct 11, 8:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Granville, Randolph	2 hr
Oct 11, 10:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Vance, Wake	3 hr
Oct 11, 11:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville	3 hr
Oct 11, 1:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Wake	2 hr
Oct 11, 2:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wilson	40 min
Oct 11, 4:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Wake	3 hr

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.