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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 24, 2016Greene County, Lenoir County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2016, 1:30 PM EST for Greene County, Lenoir County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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: Feb 24, 2016, 1:30 PM EST (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2016, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
Feb 24, 1:30 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Jason, NC	BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYED REPORT OF LARGE TREE BRANCHES DOWN IN JASON ALONG HWY 903.
Feb 24, 1:35 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Castoria, NC	EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED TREES DOWN IN CASTORIA. TIME BASED ON RADAR.

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
Feb 24, 11:16 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 386 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

As transmitted.

249 
WFUS52 KMHX 241830
TORMHX
NCC079-107-147-241900-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0004.160224T1830Z-160224T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
130 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT  HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
  GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHWESTERN PITT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 200 PM EST
    
* AT 130 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR KINSTON REGIONAL JETPORT...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA GRANGE...
  AND MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GREENVILLE...KINSTON...FARMVILLE...LA GRANGE...SNOW HILL...BETHEL...
  KINSTON REGIONAL JETPORT...FOUNTAIN...HOOKERTON...WALSTONBURG AND
  FALKLAND.

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 3565 7770 3576 7752 3580 7747 3581 7742
      3582 7741 3579 7732 3526 7759 3531 7781
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 198DEG 49KT 3537 7767 

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 9:22 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MHX		7 hr
Feb 24, 3:27 AM EST	High Surf Advisory	MHX		24 hr
Feb 24, 3:28 AM EST	Wind Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more	20 hr
Feb 24, 8:20 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	25 min
Feb 24, 12:22 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	38 min
Feb 24, 12:39 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Duplin	36 min
Feb 24, 1:06 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	39 min
Feb 24, 1:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	40 min
Feb 24, 1:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Martin, Pitt	26 min
Feb 24, 4:03 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones, Onslow	57 min
Feb 24, 4:20 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	MHX		55 min
Feb 24, 5:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Washington	30 min
Feb 24, 5:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde, Washington	19 min
Feb 24, 5:26 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	34 min
Feb 24, 6:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	43 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.