Tornado Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Jun 13, 1997, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT

In force

25 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KMHX 132031 RRA
TORMHX
NCC055-132100-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
435 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 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 428 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNDO OVER ROANOKE ISLAND IN
VICINTY OF MANTEO. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL
AFFECTING AREAS FROM NAGS HEAD TO KILL DEVIL HILLS BEFORE 5 PM.
DARE COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT A WATERSPOUT HAS MADE LANDFALL AND
PRODUCED DAMAGE AT THE AIRPORT IN MANFTEO.
 
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING.
IF THERE ISNT TIME TO GET INTO A SHELTER...TAKE REFUGE IN A
CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
 
JME/JH
 
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NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
230 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

ZFP: SRT TERM: CNVCTN DVLPING ALONG AND JUST W OF RESULTANT BNDRY.
MDLS SHOW VORT LOBE ALONG CST NOW AND MVG OFFSHORE BY EVENING SO
PRECIP SHLD DIE QUICKLY EARLY THIS EVENING. BASED ON RDR AT RELEASE
TIME MAY NEED EVENING POP ESPECIALLY ALNG CST. LONGER TERM: SHLD BE
RATHER QUIET OVERNIGHT AND GOOD PART OF SAT AS INIT SRT WV IS
OFFSHORE WITH WEAK SUBSIDENCE OVER RGN. LATE SAT INTO EARLY SUN
LOOKS INTERESTING AS FAIRLY STRG SRN STRM SRT WV MVS ACROSS. ATM WL
BE MOIST AND UNSTBLE AND LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH SRT WV SHLD DVLP GOOD
CNVCTN. APPEARS WL GET GOOD DEAL OF SUN EARLY SAT WITH TEMPS
REACHING ARND 90 INLND WHICH WILL DVLP LARGE CAPES. WNDS FIELDS NOT
VERY IMPRESSIVE BUT ANY TIME DECENT SRT WV MVS ACRS DURING JUN SVR
CNVCTN POSS. LOOKS LIKE BEST CHC WILL BE INLAND SAT AFTN REACHING
CST SAT EVNING INTO EARLY SUN. NGM LOOKS A BIT FAST MVG LOW AND FRNT
OFFSHORE SO AT THIS TIME PROB GOOD IDEA TO CONT DECENT POP ERLY
SUNDAY ALONG CST.

CWF: LARGE MDL DIFFERENCES IN LTR PERIODS WITH NGM SHOWING STRG
SURGE OF NE WINDS BEHIND FRNT AND DEPARTING LOW WHILE ETA MUCH
WEAKER AND SLOWER. AT THIS TIME DONT PLAN TO MENTION POSS OF SCA AS
LOTS OF DOUBT. WL PROB SPLIT AT LOOKOUT AND SHIFT WINDS TO NE SAT
NIGHT NRN WTRS AND SUN SRN WTRS. DOESNT LOOK LIKE SW FLOW WILL REACH
SCA TONIGHT THROUGH SAT...DSLN7 MAY REACH 25 KTS HOWEVER THINK ITS
NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF VAST MJRTY OF WTRS.

.MHX...NONE.

FREDERICK

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