Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 2002, 1:53 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2002, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2002, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 111753 TORMHX NCC117-111830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 152 PM EDT FRI OCT 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 152 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR BEARGRASS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLIAMSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN MARTIN COUNTY NEAR OAK CITY. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BEARGRASS AT 205 PM EDT. EVERETTS AT 215 PM EDT. WILLIAMSTON AT 230 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 3570 7733 3560 7715 3588 7686 3602 7710 14 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 12:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pitt | 32 min |
| Oct 11, 3:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 4:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene | 2 hr |
| Oct 11, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 24 min |
| Oct 11, 6:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret | 59 min |
| Oct 11, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.