Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 53
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 2, 2007, 2:45 AM EST for 16 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2007, 2:45 AM EST (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 10:03 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 5:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 14 min |
| Mar 2, 8:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 15 min |
| Mar 2, 8:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 8:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 91 min |
| Mar 1, 8:27 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell and 40 more | 91 min |
| Mar 2, 12:28 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 3:37 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck, Durham and 16 more | 83 min |
| Mar 2, 4:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Chatham, Columbus and 26 more | 62 min |
| Mar 2, 5:10 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:25 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 23 more | 95 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.