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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 12, 1996Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1996, 5:44 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1996, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Craven County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 1996-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 905 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 1996-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 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
905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMHX 122145
TORMHX
NCC049-122215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
544 PM EDT FRI JUL 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN CRAVEN COUNTY
 
AT 541 PM AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF NEW BERN ALONG HIGHWAY 70 MOVING N TOWARD NEW BERN AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE
IN NEW BERN SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW.
 
 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...CvULVERT
...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
RVT
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 5:24 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCarteret36 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.