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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

November 23, 19924 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 1992, 6:48 AM EST for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 23, 1992, 6:48 AM EST (11:48 UTC)
Expired
Nov 23, 1992, 7:45 AM EST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chowan County, NC, Gates County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 00:00Z on 1992-11-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 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 00:00Z on 1992-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 231148
TORHAT
NCC029-041-053-073-139-143-231245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
648 AM EST MON NOV 23 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CAMDEN COUNTY...CHOWAN COUNTY...CURRITUCK COUNTY
   ...GATES COUNTY...PASQUOTANK COUNTY...PERQUIMANS COUNTY
 
AT 645 AM EST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER BERTIE COUNTY AND WITH
A HISTORY OF TORNADAIC ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR
TOWARD THE VIRGINIA BORDER.
 
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 23, 5:56 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXBertie, Martin49 min
Nov 23, 6:48 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXCamden, Currituck57 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.