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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2016, 1:53 PM EST for Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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, 1:53 PM EST (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 2:19 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:53 PM EST | HAIL 1.25 | Greenville, NC | PUBLIC REPORTED HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL IN GREENVILLE. TIME BASED ON RADAR. |
| Feb 24, 2:18 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Williamston, NC | BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYED A PUBLIC REPORT OF LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN IN WILLIAMSTON. 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
824
WFUS52 KMHX 241853
TORMHX
NCC117-147-241930-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0005.160224T1853Z-160224T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
153 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN MARTIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
CENTRAL PITT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 230 PM EST
* AT 152 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
OVER EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY...OR OVER GREENVILLE...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GREENVILLE...WINTERVILLE...WILLIAMSTON...EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY...
PITT GREENVILLE AIRPORT...DOWDY FICKLEN STADIUM...JAMESVILLE...
SIMPSON...EVERETTS AND BEARGRASS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED
FOR THE SAME AREA.
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 3589 7702 3587 7705 3586 7703 3590 7692
3586 7689 3581 7689 3585 7684 3588 7684
3588 7681 3585 7678 3577 7681 3567 7701
3574 7717 3570 7719 3568 7717 3564 7717
3561 7715 3549 7739 3564 7752 3594 7704
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 235DEG 53KT 3562 7738
$$
111 follow-up statement
961
WWUS52 KMHX 241919
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
219 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
NCC117-147-241929-
/O.CAN.KMHX.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160224T1930Z/
MARTIN NC-PITT NC-
219 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MARTIN AND CENTRAL PITT COUNTIES
IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3589 7702 3587 7705 3586 7703 3590 7692
3586 7689 3581 7689 3585 7684 3588 7684
3588 7681 3585 7678 3577 7681 3567 7701
3574 7717 3570 7719 3568 7717 3564 7717
3561 7715 3549 7739 3564 7752 3594 7704
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 235DEG 53KT 3585 7697
$$
11The 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, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 30 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.