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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 6, 1992Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1992, 12:56 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1992, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1992, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 550 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 1992-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 061659
TORHAT
NCC055-061745-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
1256 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN DARE COUNTY...MAINLY ROANOKE ISLAND AND OUTER BANKS BETW
      OREGON INLET AND KITTY HAWK
 
  AND FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL WATERS AROUND
 
  ...FROM OREGON INLET TO KITTY HAWK
     AND
  ...THE CROATAN...ROANOKE AND NORTHERN PAMLICO SOUNDS
 
 
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES
AND WATERSPOUTS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WANCHESE
AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.
 
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.

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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.