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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Raleigh, NC

October 11, 2002Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 2002, 2:05 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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: Oct 11, 2002, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2002, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

861 
WFUS52 KRAH 111805
TORRAH
NCC195-111845-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER KENLY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINWOOD...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
  SIMS
  LUCAMA
  KENLY

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.

$$

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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, 1:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	47 min
Oct 11, 1:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Wake	2 hr
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.