Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998

Tornado Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 1, 1998Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1998, 5:00 PM EST for Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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: Apr 1, 1998, 5:00 PM EST (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 1998, 5:35 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Jones County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 1, 5:15 PM EST	Tornado F0	Wise 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 1, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 661 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

295 
WFUS01 KMHX 012202 RRA
TORMHX
NCC103-012235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
500 PM EST WED APR 1 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JONES COUNTY

* UNTIL 535 PM EST

* AT 500 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NORTHEAST OF JONESTOWN... MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WYSE FORKS BY 515 PM EST


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.


CGG-G/JME/JH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 3:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	16 min
Apr 1, 3:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Lenoir	34 min
Apr 1, 3:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	31 min
Apr 1, 4:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Lenoir	21 min
Apr 1, 4:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	35 min
Apr 1, 5:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Craven	36 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.