Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:56 PM EDT for Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:57 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Mackeys, NC | |
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 2.75 | Creswell, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
857 WFUS01 KMHX 132200 RRA TORMHX NCC187-132230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 556 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 554 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MACKEIS... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PLEASANT GROVE AT 600 PM SCUPPERNONG BY 610 PM CRESWELL BY 615 PM IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... TAKE COVER IN A STRONG BUILDING IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES. RVT/RF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde, Tyrrell | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 47 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.