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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Raleigh, NC

January 14, 2005Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Jan 14, 2005, 6:01 AM EST for Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 14 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: Jan 14, 2005, 6:01 AM EST (11:01 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2005, 6:15 AM EST
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Warren County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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
Jan 14, 5:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KRAH 141101
TORRAH
NCC185-141115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
600 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 615 AM EST

* AT 600 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF WARRENTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MACON...
  VAUGHAN...

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 OR BATHROOM.
USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND EXTERIOR WALLS.

LAT...LON 3638 7826 3655 7809 3655 7790 3651 7791
      3650 7792 3644 7792 3642 7793 3627 7810

$$

WSS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 1:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	53 days
Jan 14, 1:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	53 min
Jan 14, 1:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	64 min
Jan 14, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	59 min
Jan 14, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	53 days
Jan 14, 1:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	55 min
Jan 14, 2:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	36 min
Jan 14, 2:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery	19 min
Jan 14, 4:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	23 min
Jan 14, 4:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Orange	33 min
Jan 14, 4:34 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Orange	26 min
Jan 14, 4:47 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Durham	13 min
Jan 14, 4:53 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	37 min
Jan 14, 5:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance	35 min
Jan 14, 5:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	33 min
Jan 14, 5:33 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wake	17 min
Jan 14, 5:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Warren	43 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.