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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2019, 9:27 AM EDT for Duplin County, Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 5, 2019, 9:27 AM EDT (13:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2019, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 5, 7:28 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted.
145
WFUS52 KMHX 051327
TORMHX
NCC061-103-133-051400-
/O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0013.190905T1327Z-190905T1400Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
927 AM EDT Thu Sep 5 2019
The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
West central Jones County in eastern North Carolina...
Northwestern Onslow County in eastern North Carolina...
East central Duplin County in eastern North Carolina...
* Until 1000 AM EDT.
* At 927 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Half Moon, moving northwest at 25 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...
Jacksonville, Half Moon, Richlands, Beulaville, Catherine Lake,
Petersburg, Potters Hill, Albert J Ellis Airport, Richlands South,
Lyman and Hargetts Crossroads.
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 3485 7733 3470 7746 3488 7783 3505 7762
TIME...MOT...LOC 1327Z 127DEG 22KT 3483 7747
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 4, 8:41 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 47 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 7:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 50 min |
| Sep 5, 8:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 46 min |
| Sep 5, 8:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 8:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow | 51 min |
| Sep 5, 9:04 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 26 min | |
| Sep 5, 9:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 9:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 40 min |
| Sep 5, 9:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 50 min |
| Sep 5, 10:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 10:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 12:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 48 min |
| Sep 5, 12:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 32 min | |
| Sep 5, 2:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 13 min |
| Sep 5, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 5 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 26 min | |
| Sep 5, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Pamlico | 50 min |
| Sep 5, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 27 min |
| Sep 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Pamlico | 19 min |
| Sep 5, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Pitt | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Lenoir, Pitt | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 11 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde, Martin | 22 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.