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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 19, 1995Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1995, 10:48 AM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1995, 10:48 AM EDT (14:48 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1995, 11:30 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1665 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 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
1665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
9.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMHX 191448
TORMHX
NCC107-191530-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
1048 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...LENOIR COUNTY
 
AT 1045 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICTAED A TORNADO OVER SOUTHEAST WAYNE
COUNTY. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR LAGRANGE AND KINSTON BEFORE 1130 AM.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 10:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin38 min
May 19, 11:18 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Pitt27 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.