Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1996, 3:56 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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
- Apr 15, 1996, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 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 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Deep Run, NC | |
| Apr 15, 4:32 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Kinston, NC | |
| Apr 15, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Kinston, NC |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMHX 151956 TORMHX NCC107-152030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC 356 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...LENOIR COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MOVING INTO LENOIR COUNTY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THE TORNADO WILL BE AFFECTING AREAS NEAR STATE ROUTE 11 AND WILL MOVE NEAR KINSTON AROUND 430 PM. 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 INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. JME/RVT/TK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 3:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 27 min |
| Apr 15, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 12 min |
| Apr 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.