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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 1, 1997Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1997, 6:28 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
Jun 1, 1997, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Martin County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 1997-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 809 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

254 
WFUS01 KMHX 012229 RRA
TORMHX
NCC117-012300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
628 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN MARTIN COUNTY
 
AT 628 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A TORNADO...MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF
MARTIN COUNTY NEAR OAK CITY.
 
EARLIER...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED SEVERAL BRIEF TORNADO
TOUCHDOWNS BETWEEN WILLIAMSTON AND OAK CITY WHERE AT LEAST 1 HOUSE WAS
CONFIRMED DAMAGED.
 
THIS STORM WILL BE AFFECTING AREAS AROUND ROBERSONVILLE AND OAK CITY
THROUGH 7 PM.
 
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.
 
 
JME
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHXCaldwell67 min
Jun 1, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXMartin38 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.