Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2001, 4:01 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
- Apr 17, 2001, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Sealevel, NC | A weak tornado moved over Open Grounds Farms, knocking over trees. |
| Apr 17, 4:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Sealevel, NC |
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 172004 TORMHX NCC031-172030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 401 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 401 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO OVER MOREHEAD CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDSy. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ LAT...LON 3478 7685 3465 7670 3490 7636 3506 7655 5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 47 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.