Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 8, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2016, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1829 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
276
WFUS52 KMHX 090000
TORMHX
NCC095-090030-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0008.160809T0000Z-160809T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
800 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN OUTER BANKS HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 759 PM EDT...A CONFIRMED WATERSPOUT WAS LOCATED JUST OFFSHORE
NEAR OCRACOKE FERRY TERMINAL...OR 47 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOREHEAD
CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED WATERSPOUT MOVING ONSHORE.
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.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OCRACOKE FERRY TERMINAL AND OCRACOKE LIGHTHOUSE.
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.
IF ON OR NEAR PAMLICO SOUND GET AWAY FROM THE WATER AND MOVE TO SAFE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH
TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE
CAPSIZING WAVES...EVEN ON SMALL BODIES OF WATER. MOVE INTO DOCK AND
SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW! DO NOT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A
THUNDERSTORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3498 7601 3490 7612 3510 7617 3517 7611
3521 7598 3506 7587
TIME...MOT...LOC 2359Z 338DEG 13KT 3513 7606
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
111 follow-up statement
709
WWUS52 KMHX 090012
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
812 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016
NCC095-090030-
/O.CON.KMHX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160809T0030Z/
OUTER BANKS HYDE NC-
812 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN OUTER BANKS HYDE COUNTY...
AT 811 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR OCRACOKE FERRY TERMINAL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OCRACOKE FERRY TERMINAL AND OCRACOKE LIGHTHOUSE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
IF A TORNADO OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER IS SPOTTED...REPORT IT TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR YOUR LOCAL NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
WHO WILL SEND YOUR REPORT. THIS ACT MAY SAVE LIVES OF OTHERS IN THE
PATH OF DANGEROUS WEATHER.
IF ON OR NEAR PAMLICO SOUND GET AWAY FROM THE WATER AND MOVE TO SAFE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH
TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE
CAPSIZING WAVES...EVEN ON SMALL BODIES OF WATER. MOVE INTO DOCK AND
SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW! DO NOT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A
THUNDERSTORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3498 7601 3490 7612 3510 7617 3517 7611
3521 7598 3506 7587
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 304DEG 4KT 3515 7603
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
11The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 33 min | |
| Aug 8, 8:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 4:59 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.