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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 3, 2016, 12:52 AM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports 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 3, 2016, 12:52 AM EDT (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Dare County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 3, 1:02 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hatteras, NC | HOUSE DESTROYED ON EAGLE PASS RD. DUE TO POSSIBLE TORNADO |
| Sep 3, 1:02 AM EDT | TORNADO | Hatteras Village, NC | *** 3 INJ *** TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN HATTERAS VILLAGE AND DAMAGED SEVERAL TRAVEL TRAILERS WITH 3 MINOR INJURIES. |
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 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 643 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
614
WFUS52 KMHX 030452
TORMHX
NCC055-030515-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0012.160903T0452Z-160903T0515Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1252 AM EDT SAT SEP 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 115 AM EDT
* AT 1251 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HATTERAS FERRY TERMINAL....MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
HATTERAS FERRY TERMINAL AROUND 1255 AM EDT.
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 OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF WIND AND/OR HAIL DAMAGE...INCLUDING
TREES OR LARGE LIMBS DOWNED...BY CALLING THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE IN NEWPORT AT 1-800-889-6889.
&&
LAT...LON 3513 7569 3540 7594 3541 7593 3539 7592
3526 7580 3532 7561 3516 7554
TIME...MOT...LOC 0451Z 153DEG 25KT 3518 7568
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$
5The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 92 min |
| Sep 2, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 18 min | |
| Sep 2, 9:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Pamlico | 119 min |
| Sep 2, 9:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 9:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 14 min |
| Sep 2, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 9:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret | 92 min |
| Sep 2, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 26 min | |
| Sep 2, 10:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell, Washington | 115 min |
| Sep 2, 10:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 52 min | |
| Sep 2, 11:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 116 min |
| Sep 3, 12:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pitt, Tyrrell and 1 more | 117 min |
| Sep 3, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 92 min |
| Sep 3, 12:59 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 24 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:01 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Jones | 24 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 16 min |
| Sep 3, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 39 min | |
| Sep 3, 2:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington | 116 min |
| Sep 3, 3:25 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 24 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:38 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 28 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:49 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 4 days | |
| Sep 3, 10:28 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin | 60 hr |
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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.