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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 21, 1992Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1992, 1:55 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1992, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1992, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Hyde County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 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 1992-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 211759
TORHAT
NCC095-211830-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
155 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...HYDE COUNTY
 
THE HYDE COUNTY SHERRIFF REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN THE ROSE
HILL AREA OF HYDE COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH
OF HYDE COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT FGO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.
 
LEIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde59 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.