Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1999, 7:09 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 15, 1999, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1999, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pamlico County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Bayboro, NC | |
| Sep 15, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Hobucken, NC | This tornado moved over Hobucken and destroyed a mobile home, a house, tore the roof off of a school and severely damaged two churches. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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.
- 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 40 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, 7:29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.