Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2008, 12:48 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 16 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
- Sep 8, 2008, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2008, 1:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 1434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMHX 081648
TORMHX
NCC031-081715-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0049.080908T1648Z-080908T1715Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1248 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MOREHEAD CITY...BEAUFORT...
* UNTIL 115 PM EDT
* AT 1242 PM EDT...PUBLIC REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OVER THE NEWPORT
RIVER...ONE MILE NORTH OF THE BEAUFORT AIRPORT...MOVING SOUTH AT
13 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BEAUFORT AT 1250 PM EDT...
FORT MACON STATE PARK AND ATLANTIC BEACH BY 1255 PM EDT...
6 MILES WEST OF CAPE LOOKOUT BY 115 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 3467 7655 3466 7653 3458 7653 3460 7657
3464 7657 3469 7667 3467 7669 3467 7677
3482 7674 3480 7652 3472 7652
TIME...MOT...LOC 1647Z 006DEG 12KT 3472 7665
$$
111 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KMHX 081704
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
104 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008
NCC031-081714-
/O.CAN.KMHX.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080908T1715Z/
CARTERET NC-
104 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN CARTERET COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE
WEATHER...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3467 7655 3466 7653 3458 7653 3460 7657
3464 7657 3469 7667 3467 7669 3467 7677
3482 7674 3480 7652 3472 7652
TIME...MOT...LOC 1704Z 006DEG 12KT 3466 7666
$$
11The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 4:31 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MHX | 15 hr | |
| Sep 8, 11:24 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 71 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 38 min | |
| Sep 8, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 33 min |
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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.