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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 9:52 AM EST for Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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
- Nov 11, 2002, 9:52 AM EST (14:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 10:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Godwin, NC | Trees were blown down near Smithfield Road and Highway 82. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 6:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 7:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 37 min |
| Nov 11, 8:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 8:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 8:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 8:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 9:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 9:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 30 min |
| Nov 11, 9:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 9:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 50 min |
| Nov 11, 9:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 35 min |
| Nov 11, 9:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 10:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 10:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 10:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 30 min |
| Nov 11, 10:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 10:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 40 min |
| Nov 11, 10:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 10:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 32 min |
| Nov 11, 11:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 12 min |
| Nov 11, 11:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 12 min |
| Nov 11, 11:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 21 min |
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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.