Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1998, 1:07 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 8, 1998, 1:07 PM EDT (17:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 1:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pitt County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 1:25 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Bell Fork, 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMHX 081707 RRA TORMHX NCC147-081755- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 107 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PITT COUNTY * UNTIL 155 PM EDT * AT 105 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE ... JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY OF GREENVILLE BY 120 PM NEAR SIMPSON AROUND 130 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. JME/WS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 47 min |
| Sep 8, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 51 min |
| Sep 8, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 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.