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The National Weather Service issued its first tornado warnings — for northern Chatham County and central Orange County — at 10:38 a.m. Friday, spawning a frenzy of weather updates.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
A tornado watch is in effect through 8 p.m. ET for 6.8 million people in parts of eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia, including the cities of Raleigh, Virginia Beach and Richmond.
A strong band of storms rolled through the Triangle and central/eastern NC, bringing wind and rain. A day of tornado warnings across the Triangle, with 2 twisters reported on the ground in NC Skip ...
A few weeks after the tornado, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released details about an experimental warning system which was tested before and during the tornado. This new warning system, named Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS), was created by the Hazardous Weather Testbed housed in the National Weather Center in Norman ...
Get the Raleigh, NC local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... USA TODAY 7 minutes ago ... Another 200,000 people face evacuation warnings in Los Angeles area; 20 people have ...
A total of 58 tornadoes were confirmed; six were rated EF3, two of which had path lengths of over 50 miles (80 km) with the first striking Raleigh, North Carolina (albeit at EF1 strength). The high risk was discontinued at 0100Z as the storms had mostly moved off the East Coast. April 26: 2011: South-Central U.S. [271] 55
What to do in a tornado. North Carolina gets an average of 31 tornadoes per year. “Tornado season” is March through May, but they can happen any time. The National Weather Service offers these ...