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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 24, 1992Bertie County, Hertford County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1992, 7:07 PM EDT for Bertie County, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1992, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bertie County, NC, Hertford County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1992-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1174 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 242307
TORHAT
NCC015-091-250000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
707 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN BERTIE COUNTY...SOUTHERN HERTFORD COUNTY
 
BERTIE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
NEAR THE TOWN OF AULANDER NEAR THE BERTIE HERTFORD COUNTY LINE. TREES
WERE DOWN AND THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST DOWN HIGHWAY 305.
 
 
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 GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.

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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.