Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Nov 17, 1988, 10:38 AM EST for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 17, 1988, 10:38 AM EST (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 1988, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dare 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 857 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 11:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Currituck | 41 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.