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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 28, 2001Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 1:12 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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: May 28, 2001, 1:12 PM EDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 1:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Rodanthe, NC
May 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Rodanthe, NC	National Park Service reported seeing a waterspout/tornado move across the Pamlico Sound and then across Pea Island near Rodanthe. The tornado moved over part of the national park , but did overturn one trailer.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMHX 281714
TORMHX

NCC055-281800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
112 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 112 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  LARGE WATERSPOUT OVER THE PAMLICO SOUND...ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF   
  SALVO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   RODANTHE...WAVES AND SALVO AT 130 PM EDT.

SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR 
HALLWAY OR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. GET UNDER A PIECE OF 
STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND 
ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR
THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

$$

DLAT...LON 3550 7591 3538 7583 3571 7493 3593 7507

12/17

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 10:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	33 min
May 28, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene, Lenoir	45 min
May 28, 11:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	28 min
May 28, 11:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Jones, Onslow	39 min
May 28, 11:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico	45 min
May 28, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	50 min
May 28, 12:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	46 min
May 28, 12:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde	37 min
May 28, 12:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare, Hyde	51 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.