Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2015
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2015, 5:46 PM EDT for Greene County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 11 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
- May 10, 2015, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2015, 5:57 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 788 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
394
WFUS52 KMHX 102146
TORMHX
NCC079-107-102215-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0001.150510T2146Z-150510T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
546 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
SOUTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 545 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR LA GRANGE...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KINSTON AND LA GRANGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3534 7782 3538 7780 3540 7780 3543 7783
3557 7782 3559 7779 3533 7768 3527 7781
3530 7783
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 153DEG 28KT 3536 7775
$$
261 follow-up statement
506
WWUS52 KMHX 102157
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
557 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2015
NCC079-107-102206-
/O.CAN.KMHX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-150510T2215Z/
LENOIR NC-GREENE NC-
557 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LENOIR AND SOUTHWESTERN
GREENE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED,
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3534 7782 3538 7780 3540 7780 3543 7783
3557 7782 3559 7779 3533 7768 3527 7781
3530 7783
TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 153DEG 28KT 3544 7779
$$
26The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Jones | 52 min |
| May 10, 7:04 AM EDT | Flood Watch | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir | 22 hr |
| May 10, 11:32 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | 32 hr | |
| May 10, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 51 min |
| May 10, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 min | |
| May 10, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones, Pitt | 53 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.