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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Raleigh, NC

October 13, 2004Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 6:57 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 2004, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wake County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 12:00Z on 2004-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 609 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
609 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KRAH 132257
TORRAH
NCC183-132315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
656 PM EDT WED OCT 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL WAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 656 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER WENDELL...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF RALEIGH...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR ZEBULON TAKE COVER NOW 

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. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND EXTERIOR WALLS AS FLYING DEBRIS
GENERATED BY TORNADIC WINDS CAN BE DEADLY.

LAT...LON 3588 7832 3589 7831 3587 7829 3584 7826
      3582 7826 3574 7841 3590 7843 3591 7841
      3591 7835

$$

WSS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 6:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHStanly19 min
Oct 13, 6:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMontgomery35 min
Oct 13, 5:35 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHPerson25 min
Oct 13, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake34 min
Oct 13, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWake12 min
Oct 13, 7:07 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Nash38 min
Oct 13, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange35 min
Oct 13, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHNash, Wilson30 min

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.