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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 27, 1994Tyrrell County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1994, 11:39 AM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1994, 11:39 AM EDT (15:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1994, 12:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Tyrrell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 21.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 271539
TORHAT
NCC177-271615-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
1139 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN TYRRELL COUNTY
 
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
NORTHERN TYRRELL COUNTY...JUST SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBIA. MOVEMENT OF THE
STORM WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THIS PATH WILL TAKE IT
ACROSS GOAT NECK AND FORT LANDING AND INTO THE ALBEMARLE SOUND WITHIN
THE NEXT HALF HOUR.
 
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW
CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER IN A CLOSET OR BASEMENT NOW!
ABANDON AUTOMOBILES FOR SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING...CULVERT
...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 9:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Bertie, Martin	52 min
Jun 27, 9:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	35 min
Jun 27, 10:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Perquimans	54 min
Jun 27, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Currituck	45 min
Jun 27, 11:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Camden	44 min
Jun 27, 11:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Martin	45 min
Jun 27, 11:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hertford	51 min
Jun 27, 12:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Camden, Pasquotank	53 min
Jun 27, 12:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Chowan, Perquimans	53 min
Jun 27, 12:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Martin	48 min
Jun 27, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	53 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans	47 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Camden, Currituck	47 min
Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank	54 min
Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	54 min
Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	36 min

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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.