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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

October 22, 2005Greene County, Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 22, 2005, 2:52 AM EDT for Greene County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 22, 2005, 2:52 AM EDT (06:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 22, 2005, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 22, 3:00 AM EDT	TORNADO	La Grange, NC	TORNADO REPORTED BY PUBLIC. SEVERAL TREES DOWN NEAR LAGRANGE.
Oct 22, 3:05 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	La Grange, NC	LARGE LIMBS DOWN AND PEA SIZED HAIL IN LA GRANGE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMHX 220652
TORMHX
NCC079-107-220715-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0008.051022T0652Z-051022T0715Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
252 AM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 315 AM EDT

* AT 245 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF LA GRANGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HOOKERTON AROUND 300 AM EDT...

IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND
GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1-800-889-6889...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3531 7745 3525 7744 3523 7753 3515 7752
      3509 7758 3501 7774 3510 7774 3517 7783
      3534 7783 3537 7777 3543 7778 3551 7758
      3540 7747 3535 7745 3533 7739

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 22, 2:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	36 min
Oct 22, 3:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	52 min
Oct 22, 4:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	51 min
Oct 22, 4:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	47 min
Oct 22, 4:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	49 min
Oct 22, 4:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort	27 min
Oct 22, 4:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Oct 22, 5:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX		33 min
Oct 22, 6:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		42 min
Oct 22, 6:19 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.