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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 29, 1991Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1991, 5:48 PM EST for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 1991, 5:48 PM EST (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 1991, 6:30 PM EST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Bertie County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 1991-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 754 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 1991-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
754 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 292249
TORHAT
NCC015-292330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
548 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BERTIE COUNTY
 
AT 544 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST
BERTIE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL BERTIE
COUNTY BY 630 THIS EVENING.
 
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
 
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW
CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE
STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT.
 
DEMAURICE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 10:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCamden46 min
Mar 29, 11:09 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington36 min
Mar 29, 5:08 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXGates, Hertford37 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991

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.