Tornado Warning 16, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Sep 15, 1999, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)

Expired

Sep 15, 1999, 6:00 PM EDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Carteret County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 152133
TORMHX
NCC031-152200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
530 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR...
  CARTERET COUNTY

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAPE LOOKOUT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR ATLANTIC BEACH AROUND 535 PM EDT.
  NEAR HARLOWE AROUND 540 PM EDT.
 
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.
ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO
THE NATIONAL WESATHER SERVICE.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 15, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
215 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

NGM HAS BEST HANDLE ON FLOYD OF 12Z SYNOPTIC MODELS...WITH TRACK AND
TIMING VERY CLOSE TO CURRENT NHC FCST. LATEST TRACKING ON STLT
INDICATES MOVEMENT OF 350 DEGS AT 14 KTS...AND WITH EXPECTED TURN TO
N WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE LANDFALL MORE NEAR CAPE FEAR THAN
MYRTLE BEACH. HOWEVER...12Z HRCN GDNC CONSENSUS CONTS TO BE WITH
CURRENT FCST TRACK.

WILL UPGRADE HIGH WIND WATCH TO WARNING AND WILL POST THROUGH
THURSDAY ALTHOUGH WINDS MAY DIMINISH EARLY IN AFTN IF FASTER NGM IS
CORRECT. HURRICANE WARNING AND FLOOD WATCH CONT AS POSTED.

WILL END PCPN AND DIMINISH WINDS FROM SW TO NE OVER AREA LATE THU
INTO THU EVE. WILL GO PT CLDY FOR FRI AND LET LATER SHIFTS ADJUST AS
NEEDED. WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW NGM FOR TEMPS.

CWF: STATUS QUO...WINDS AND SEAS DIMINISHING THU NIGHT AND FRI.

.MHX...HURRICANE WARNING ENTIRE COAST.
       FLOOD WATCH EXCEPT FOR OUTER BANKS.
       INLAND HIGH WIND WARNING FOR HURRICANE FORCE WINDS TONIGHT
       AND THURSDAY FOR CSTL PLAINS.

JBM

In the hours before

NCZ094-098-152030-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
419 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

...TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ONSLOW COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

...TORNADO WARNING CANCELED FOR PAMLICO COUNTY

RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR HUBERT MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.
THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PAMLICO COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1999Every tornado warning in 1999Tornadoes in 1999

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.