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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1999, 2:35 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
- Sep 15, 1999, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1999, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHAT 151835 TORMHX NCC133-151915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 235 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 232 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR TAR LANDING AROUND 245 PM EDT. NEAR CATHERINE LAKE AROUND 255 PM EDT. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 12:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 38 min |
| Sep 15, 12:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 37 min |
| Sep 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 40 min |
| Sep 15, 4:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 22 min |
| Sep 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 12 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven | 12 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 12 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Washington | 12 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 12 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 30 min |
| Sep 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 30 min |
| Sep 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Washington | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 36 min |
| Sep 15, 7:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico | 31 min |
| Sep 15, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.