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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 30, 2014Granville County, Vance County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2014, 6:08 AM EDT for Granville County, Vance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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: Apr 30, 2014, 6:08 AM EDT (10:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2014, 7:00 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Granville County, NC, Vance County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 437 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 479 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

342 
WFUS52 KRAH 301008
TORRAH
NCC077-181-301100-
/O.NEW.KRAH.TO.W.0028.140430T1008Z-140430T1100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
608 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GRANVILLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHERN VANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 700 AM EDT
    
* AT 608 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR OXFORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  OXFORD...STOVALL...SATTERWHITE POINT MARINA...JOHN H KERR
  RESERVOIR...TUNGSTEN...KERR LAKE...STEELE CREEK MARINA &
  CAMPGROUND...BULLOCKSVILLE AND DABNEY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3649 7831 3622 7858 3627 7869 3654 7861
      3654 7832
TIME...MOT...LOC 1008Z 207DEG 28KT 3628 7863 
$$

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3 follow-up statements

867 
WWUS52 KRAH 301022
SVSRAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
622 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

NCC077-181-301100-
/O.CON.KRAH.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-140430T1100Z/
GRANVILLE NC-VANCE NC-
622 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN GRANVILLE AND NORTHWESTERN VANCE COUNTIES...
     
AT 619 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
OXFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STOVALL... DABNEY... TUNGSTEN... 
AND KERR LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3650 7834 3630 7855 3634 7864 3654 7858
      3654 7832
TIME...MOT...LOC 1019Z 208DEG 30KT 3635 7858 

$$

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016 
WWUS52 KRAH 301033
SVSRAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
633 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

NCC077-181-301100-
/O.CON.KRAH.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-140430T1100Z/
GRANVILLE NC-VANCE NC-
633 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN GRANVILLE AND NORTHWESTERN VANCE COUNTIES...
     
AT 632 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF HENDERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TUNGSTEN AND JOHN H KERR RESERVOIR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3640 7848 3643 7857 3654 7854 3654 7834
TIME...MOT...LOC 1032Z 206DEG 28KT 3647 7850 

$$

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027 
WWUS52 KRAH 301041
SVSRAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
641 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

NCC077-181-301050-
/O.CAN.KRAH.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-140430T1100Z/
GRANVILLE NC-VANCE NC-
641 AM EDT WED APR 30 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN GRANVILLE AND NORTHWESTERN
VANCE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3640 7848 3643 7857 3654 7854 3654 7834
TIME...MOT...LOC 1040Z 207DEG 28KT 3653 7846 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	44 min
Apr 29, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	36 min
Apr 29, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	39 min
Apr 29, 10:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wilson	3 hr
Apr 29, 10:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	67 min
Apr 29, 11:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	61 min
Apr 30, 12:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	33 min
Apr 30, 12:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	38 min
Apr 30, 4:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	48 min
Apr 30, 4:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	41 min
Apr 30, 4:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Orange	39 min
Apr 30, 5:24 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Wake	51 min
Apr 30, 6:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	20 min
Apr 30, 11:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	31 min
Apr 30, 12:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Wake	63 min
Apr 30, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Nash, Vance and 3 more	87 min
Apr 30, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke	54 min
Apr 30, 1:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Harnett, Wake	3 hr
Apr 30, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	57 min
Apr 30, 2:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Nash	2 hr
Apr 30, 3:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax	2 hr

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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.