Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 2002, 11:45 AM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 10, 2002, 11:45 AM EDT (15:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2002, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 12:05 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Ocracoke, NC | The North Carolina Ferry Division reported a waterspout that moved onshore in Silver Lake in Ocracoke. Only minor roof damage to a couple of buildings was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
823 WFUS52 KMHX 101545 TORMHX NCC095-101615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED TORNADO WARNING...FOR TORNADO APPROACHING OCRACOKE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1146 AM EDT TUE SEP 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OUTER BANKS HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1215 PM EDT * AT 1145 AM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF OCRACOKE...OR ABOUT OVER HATTERAS VILLAGE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OCRACOKE AT 1210 PM EDT. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ LAT...LON 3515 7554 3532 7561 3518 7621 3497 7612
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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.