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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 22, 1990Pasquotank County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1990, 3:53 PM EDT for Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1990, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1990, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Pasquotank 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 1990-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3113 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 1990-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 221953
TORHAT
NCC139-222030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
353 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
          ...PASQUOTANK
 
A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED 1 TO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH MILLS
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
LEIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell45 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.