Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1988

Tornado Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 25, 1988Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1988, 5:14 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1988, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1988, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Hyde County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1988-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1988-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 252114
TORHAT
NCC095-252200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
514 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A 
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
NORTH CAROLINA... EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HYDE
 
...AND ADJACENT WATERS.
                                                                         
A WATER SPOUT WAS REPORTED IN ROYAL SHOALS HEADING TOWARDS OCRACOKE 
ISLAND 
 
THIS WILL REPLACE THE SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NOW IN EFFECT. 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH GET OUT OF
YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND FIND SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE
CLOSE TO YOU.  GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
A BASEMEYNT IS BEST. COVER YOUR HEAD.
                                                                         
 
SMALL CRAFT SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR OR PREPARE YOUR BOAT
FOR ROUGH WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
FT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXMartin60 min
May 24, 8:54 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXTyrrell56 min
May 24, 9:07 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBertie, Hertford63 min
May 24, 9:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare28 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes in 1988

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.