Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 23, 1998, 1:28 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- May 23, 1998, 1:28 PM EDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 1:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Havelock, NC | Trees down on houses. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMHX 231727 RRA TORMHX NCC049-231800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 128 PM EDT SAT MAY 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CRAVEN COUNTY * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 125 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF RIVERDALE... MOVING MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BED NEAR... HAVELOCK AT 135 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 32 min |
| May 23, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 35 min |
| May 23, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 50 min |
| May 23, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 50 min |
| May 23, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 35 min |
| May 23, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 35 min |
| May 23, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 35 min |
| May 23, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 35 min |
| May 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 35 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.