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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 27, 2003Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2003, 2:56 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
May 27, 2003, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 2003-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 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 2003-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMHX 271856
TORMHX
NCC133-271945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
254 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 254 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF HAWS RUN...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HAWS RUN AROUND 305 PM EDT
  VERONA AROUND 315 PM EDT
  NEW RIVER AIR STATION AROUND 320 PM EDT
  CAMP LEJEUNE AROUND 325 PM EDT
  PINEY GREEN AROUND 330 PM EDT
  HUBERT AROUND 335 PM EDT

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DIXON...HAMMOCKS BEACH AND
JACKSONVILLE.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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

LAT...LON 3473 7769 3457 7762 3456 7733 3463 7712
          3485 7721

20

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 4:45 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX90 min
May 27, 6:36 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX54 min
May 27, 7:28 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX92 min
May 27, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX65 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.