Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 18, 2000, 4:27 PM EDT for Carteret County, Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 18, 2000, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Stella, NC | A weak F0 tornado touched down in Hadnot Creek near the town of Stella. The tornado was on the ground for a brief time and remained over the salt marsh. |
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 182028 TORMHX NCC031-049-182100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 427 PM EDT MON SEP 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 427 PM EDT WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF STELLA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMERALD ISLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HAVELOCK AT 455 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 3479 7724 3466 7708 3490 7674 3506 7694 08/13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 1:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 81 min |
| Sep 18, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 56 min |
| Sep 18, 4:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.