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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 6, 1993Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 1993, 3:07 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 1993, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1993, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Hyde County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 6, 3:10 PM EDTTornado F1Swanquarter, NCOne home was destroyed and another damaged, totaling $60,000.
Aug 6, 3:45 PM EDTTornado F0Engelhard, NCA house roof and satellite dish antenna were damaged, totaling $3,000.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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 1993-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 124 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1993-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
106 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 061911
TORHAT
NCC095-NCZ502-062015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
307 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...HYDE COUNTY
 
  AND FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL WATERS AROUND
 
  ...PAMLICO SOUND
 
TORNADO WARNING FOR ALL OF HYDE COUNTY. TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED
NEAR SWANQUAARTER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING OVER PAMLICO SOUND MARINERS
SHOULD HEAD FOR LAND OR PREPARE FOR HEAVY WEATHE.
 
,
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INT|O A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.