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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 21, 2000Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2000, 6:01 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2000, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Duplin County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 6:20 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Kenansville, NC	Numerous trees and power lines blown down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

109 
WFUS52 KMHX 212200
TORMHX
NCC061-212230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
601 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 600 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF KENENSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   KORNEGAY AT 615 PM EDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. 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.

NNNN

LAT...LON 3519 7807 3501 7811 3484 7775 3511 7778

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin, Washington	45 min
May 20, 10:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	50 min
May 21, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	39 min
May 21, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	42 min
May 21, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	32 min
May 21, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	36 min
May 21, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	29 min
May 21, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	35 min
May 21, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	36 min
May 21, 6:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	51 min
May 21, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	49 min
May 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	45 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.