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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 8, 2016, 11:17 AM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
- Oct 8, 2016, 11:17 AM EDT (15:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2016, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 11:22 AM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Sneads Ferry, NC | LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD AT SNEADS FERRY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 7:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted.
283
WFUS52 KMHX 081517
TORMHX
NCC133-081545-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0014.161008T1517Z-161008T1545Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1117 AM EDT SAT OCT 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 1145 AM EDT
* AT 1117 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SNEADS FERRY...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF CAMP
LEJEUNE CENTER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 70 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...
NEW RIVER STATION AROUND 1125 AM EDT.
ALBERT J ELLIS AIRPORT AROUND 1135 AM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HOLLY
RIDGE.
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 3444 7752 3449 7758 3473 7769 3489 7766
3454 7723 3444 7734
TIME...MOT...LOC 1517Z 132DEG 60KT 3453 7739
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$
81 follow-up statement
727
WWUS52 KMHX 081528
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1128 AM EDT SAT OCT 8 2016
NCC133-081545-
/O.CON.KMHX.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-161008T1545Z/
ONSLOW NC-
1128 AM EDT SAT OCT 8 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 AM EDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ONSLOW COUNTY...
AT 1127 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW RIVER STATION...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 65 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ALBERT J ELLIS AIRPORT AROUND 1140 AM EDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HOLLY
RIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
IF A TORNADO OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER IS SPOTTED...
CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NEWPORT AT 1-800-889-
6889. THIS ACT MAY SAVE LIVES OF OTHERS IN THE PATH OF DANGEROUS
WEATHER.
&&
LAT...LON 3444 7752 3449 7758 3473 7769 3489 7766
3454 7723 3444 7734
TIME...MOT...LOC 1527Z 135DEG 55KT 3464 7749
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
8The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 11:12 PM EDT | Hurricane Warning | MHX | 36 hr | |
| Oct 8, 11:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir and 1 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 32 min |
| Oct 8, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 12 min |
| Oct 8, 2:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 36 min |
| Oct 8, 3:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Jones | 9 days |
| Oct 8, 4:22 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 10 days |
| Oct 8, 4:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 14 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:14 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 15 days |
| Oct 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico | 14 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:13 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Martin | 68 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington | 14 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.