Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2006, 2:26 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 27, 2006, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1492 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 271830 TORMHX NCC031-271900- /O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0013.060627T1826Z-060627T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 226 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CAPE LOOKOUT...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... STRAITS AROUND 235 PM EDT... BETTIE AROUND 240 PM EDT... OPEN GROUNDS FARM AROUND 245 PM EDT... OTHER AREAS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE MOREHEAD CITY...SMYRNA...AND OTHER PORTIONS OF DOWN EAST CARTERET COUNTY. 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 3459 7672 3470 7627 3495 7634 3482 7681 $$ 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 97 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 32 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:52 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 51 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Every tornado warning in 2006Tornadoes in 2006
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.