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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 15, 2007Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2007, 8:05 AM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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 15, 2007, 8:05 AM EDT (12:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2007, 8:30 AM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:05 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 2007-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 489 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2007-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KMHX 151210
TORMHX
NCC055-151230-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0009.070715T1205Z-070715T1230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
805 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 AM EDT

* AT 800 AM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED 2 WATERSPOUTS OVER PAMLICO     
  SOUND NEAR RODANTHE...MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. 

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS HATTERAS ISLAND JUST NORTH OF         
  RODANTHE. 

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 3562 7564 3547 7551 3563 7518 3582 7534

$$

10
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS52 KMHX 151232
SVSMHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
830 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2007

NCC055-151235-
/O.EXP.KMHX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070715T1230Z/
DARE NC-
830 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DARE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 830 AM EDT...

THERE WAS A PUBLIC REPORT OF THE TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN JUST NORTH OF 
RODANTHE AT 806 AM EDT...BUT IT QUICKLY DISSIPATED. 

LAT...LON 3562 7564 3547 7551 3563 7518 3582 7534

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 8:21 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX24 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes in 2007

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.