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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 26, 1996Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1996, 3:36 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
Apr 26, 1996, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 1996-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 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 1996-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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 261937
TORMHX
NCC055-262015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
336 PM EDT FRI APR 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN OUTER BANKS IN DARE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 335 PM THE DARE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED WATERSPOUTS
OVER THE EASTERN ALBEMARLE SOUND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.
THE WATERSPOUTS WILL CROSS LOCATIONS BETWEEN DUCK AND NAGS HEAD
BY 400 PM.
 
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
 
 
RVT
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 10:35 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones25 min
Apr 26, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones40 min
Apr 26, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin, Onslow51 min
Apr 26, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven51 min
Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico43 min
Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.