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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 2, 1998Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:41 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1998, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Pamlico County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 812 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.2

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The text

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

603 
WFUS01 KMHX 022042 RRA
TORMHX
NCC137-022115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
441 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PAMLICO COUNTY

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 440 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF BAYBORO... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ORIENTAL BY 455 PM EDT

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.


TAYLOR/JH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Pamlico58 min
Jun 2, 4:52 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCarteret33 min
Jun 2, 5:22 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCarteret33 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.