Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jan 14, 2006, 2:12 AM EST for Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Jan 14, 2006, 2:12 AM EST (07:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2006, 2:45 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 11:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 140713 TORMHX NCC049-103-140745- /O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0002.060114T0712Z-060114T0745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 212 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 245 AM EST * AT 208 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TRENTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... COVE CITY AROUND 220 AM EST... TUSCARORA AROUND 225 AM EST... ERNUL AROUND 240 AM EST... 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 3510 7751 3496 7738 3525 7688 3539 7712 $$ 20
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KMHX 140734
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
234 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006
NCC103-140744-
/O.CAN.KMHX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060114T0745Z/
JONES NC-
234 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR JONES COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3519 7698 3517 7703 3508 7718 3514 7730
3518 7739 3537 7714 3536 7710 3532 7703
3525 7690
$$
NCC049-140745-
/O.CON.KMHX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060114T0745Z/
CRAVEN NC-
234 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 245 AM EST FOR CRAVEN COUNTY...
AT 229 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR
TUSCARORA...OR NEAR NEW BERN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CAYTON AROUND 240 AM EST...
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 HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-800-889-6889...WHEN YOU CAN
DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3519 7698 3517 7703 3508 7718 3514 7730
3518 7739 3537 7714 3536 7710 3532 7703
3525 7690
$$
20The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 10:44 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Jan 14, 12:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 41 min |
| Jan 14, 1:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir | 24 min |
| Jan 14, 1:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 26 min |
| Jan 14, 1:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin | 31 min |
| Jan 14, 2:23 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| Jan 14, 3:18 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| Jan 14, 3:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | 29 min | |
| Jan 14, 3:58 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 62 min | |
| Jan 14, 4:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | 50 min | |
| Jan 14, 4:11 PM EST | Wind Advisory | MHX | 24 hr |
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.