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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 15, 1999Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1999, 10:09 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 21 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, 10:09 PM EDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 1999, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Hyde County, NC

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, 9:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 288 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 160210
TORMHX
NCC095-160230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1009 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR...
  WESTERN HYDE COUNTY

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 1007 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SWANQUARTER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55
  MPH.
  THE TORNADO WILL MOVE WEST OF LAKE MATTAMUSKEET NEAR HIGHWAY 264.

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 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 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 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.

RSB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 15, 4:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 50 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, 9:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Dare	24 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.