Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 2:28 PM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 15 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2007, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2007, 2:43 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harnett County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:30 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Nw Angier, NC | QUARTER SIZE REPORTED BY TRAINED SPOTTER BETWEEN ANGIER AND FUQUAY-VARINA AND ALSO WINDS OF 50 TO 55 MPH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 8:08 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KRAH 151829 TORRAH NCC085-151900- /O.NEW.KRAH.TO.W.0003.070415T1828Z-070415T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 228 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL HARNETT COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF ANGIER...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LILLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...DUNCAN THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3545 7903 3534 7891 3552 7870 3558 7892 $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KRAH 151843 SVSRAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 242 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 NCC085-151852- /O.CAN.KRAH.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070415T1900Z/ HARNETT NC- 242 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL HARNETT COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS MOVED NORTHEAST AND OUT OF THE COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3545 7903 3534 7891 3552 7870 3558 7892 $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 23 min |
| Apr 15, 9:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 10:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange, Person | 27 min |
| Apr 15, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 15 min |
| Apr 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 2:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 2:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 37 min |
| Apr 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 3:55 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 20 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 67 min |
| Apr 15, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 7:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.