Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2007, 5:46 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 14 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 13, 2007, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2007, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 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), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 132146 TORMHX NCC031-132200- /O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0007.070713T2146Z-070713T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 546 PM EDT FRI JUL 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 542 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A WATERSPOUT NEAR SALTER PATH...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF NEWPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ATLANTIC BEACH BY 555 PM EDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. 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 IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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 3470 7703 3462 7698 3467 7676 3474 7679 $$ 20
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMHX 132201 SVSMHX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 600 PM EDT FRI JUL 13 2007 NCC031-132210- /O.EXP.KMHX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070713T2200Z/ CARTERET NC- 600 PM EDT FRI JUL 13 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CARTERET COUNTY EXPIRES AT 600 PM EDT... THE WATERSPOUT HAS DISSIPATED AND THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3470 7703 3462 7698 3467 7676 3474 7679 $$ 20
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 1:15 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MHX | 60 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:20 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MHX | 55 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Jul 13, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min | |
| Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Jul 13, 5:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Jul 13, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 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.