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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 3, 2003Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2003, 7:18 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
Jul 3, 2003, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2003-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 864 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2003-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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

990 
WFUS52 KMHX 032318
TORMHX
NCC055-032345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
717 PM EDT THU JUL 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 717 PM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OVER THE   
PAMLICO SOUND NEAR RODANTHE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
MANTEO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3568 7564 3551 7558 3561 7504 3583 7511

3
1

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 8:01 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX89 min
Jul 2, 8:01 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX89 min
Jul 2, 8:55 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt65 min
Jul 2, 9:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHXDuplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt119 min
Jul 2, 9:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX94 min
Jul 2, 11:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHXDuplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt3 hr
Jul 2, 11:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX57 min
Jul 2, 11:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX57 min
Jul 3, 1:41 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX64 min
Jul 3, 1:41 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX64 min
Jul 3, 1:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare25 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.