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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 18, 2012, 4:33 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2012, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 4:44 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Tuscarora, NC | PUBLIC REPORTS LIMBS DOWN IN TUSCARORA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
156
WFUS52 KMHX 182033
TORMHX
NCC049-182100-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0012.120918T2033Z-120918T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
433 PM EDT TUE SEP 18 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT
* AT 431 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF COVE CITY...OR 13 MILES WEST OF NEW
BERN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. QUARTER SIZE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TUSCARORA...
CLARK...JASPER...
LIMA...BELLAIR...
ASKINS...ERNUL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF CAUGHT IN A VEHICLE...AS A LAST RESORT...EITHER PARK YOUR VEHICLE
AND STAY PUT LEAVING YOUR SEAT BELT ON...OR ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE AND
LIE DOWN IN A LOW LYING AREA. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES.
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING...1...8 0 0...8 8 9...6 8 8 9 OR NOTIFY YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
&&
LAT...LON 3509 7720 3514 7731 3519 7739 3536 7707
3530 7696 3525 7690 3523 7691 3522 7695
3522 7694 3520 7697 3516 7697 3507 7719
TIME...MOT...LOC 2034Z 239DEG 32KT 3513 7729
$$
111 follow-up statement
517
WWUS52 KMHX 182051
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
451 PM EDT TUE SEP 18 2012
NCC049-182100-
/O.CON.KMHX.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120918T2100Z/
CRAVEN NC-
451 PM EDT TUE SEP 18 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
CRAVEN COUNTY...
AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LIMA...OR 6 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NEW BERN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... VANCEBORO...FOREST...
ASKINS...ERNUL...CAYTON AND SPRING HOPE.
WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO...PLEASE CALL IN YOUR REPORTS OF PENNY OR
LARGER SIZED HAIL...AS WELL AS WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES OR LARGE
LIMBS DOWNED BY CALLING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT...
1...8 0 0...8 8 9...6 8 8 9.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3509 7720 3514 7731 3519 7739 3536 7707
3530 7696 3525 7690 3523 7691 3522 7695
3522 7694 3520 7697 3516 7697 3507 7719
TIME...MOT...LOC 2051Z 239DEG 32KT 3520 7713
$$
11The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 11:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 45 min |
| Sep 18, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret, Pamlico | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Washington | 67 min |
| Sep 18, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 64 min | |
| Sep 18, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 61 min |
| Sep 18, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico, Tyrrell | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Hyde, Pamlico | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 59 min | |
| Sep 18, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 57 min |
| Sep 18, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 55 min | |
| Sep 18, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| Sep 18, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Sep 18, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 18 min |
| Sep 18, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 47 min |
| Sep 18, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 32 min |
| Sep 18, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven | 19 min |
| Sep 18, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min | |
| Sep 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret, Pamlico | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.