Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1999, 9:51 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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, 9:51 PM EDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1999, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dare County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHAT 160153 TORMHX NCC055-160215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 951 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR... WESTERN DARE COUNTY * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 948 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STUMPY POINT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR STUMPY POINT AROUND 1000 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 LOWESTm 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 WEATHER SERVICE.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 15, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
842 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999
MOREHEAD CWA BEING BLITZKRIEGED WITH DOPPLER INDICATED
TORNADOES...AND MANY VERIFIED TOUCHDOWNS. EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE
THROUGH TONIGHT AS FLOYD APPROACHES.
CURRENT FCST PACKAGE WILL STAND...WITH MINOR ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON
OFFICIAL NHC TRACK AFTER CONFERENCE CALL.
CWF: STAY AWAY FROM THE WATER
.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.
RSBIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 4:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Pitt | 27 min |
| Sep 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 35 min |
| Sep 15, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pitt | 25 min |
| Sep 15, 10:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 21 min |
| Sep 16, 4:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Washington | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.