Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2002, 8:58 AM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 26, 2002, 8:58 AM EDT (12:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dare County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:05 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Avon, NC | A weak short lived tornado moved onshore the Outer Banks near Avon causing roof and porch damage to several homes. |
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, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
396 WFUS52 KMHX 261258 TORMHX NCC055-261330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED TORNADO WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 856 AM EDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR... OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 930 AM EDT * AT 856 AM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A WATERSPOUNT ONE AND ONE-HALF MILES EAST OF AVON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUXTON...MOVING WEST AT 25 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 HANDS. MARINERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND AVOID THE WATERSPOUT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ LAT...LON 3535 7555 3523 7540 3547 7506 3563 7525 2/12
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 36 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.