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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2024, 11:37 AM EDT for Duplin County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2024, 11:37 AM EDT (15:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2024, 12:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Duplin County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 16, 10:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 10:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 24 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 5 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| Sep 16, 3:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 114 min |
| Sep 16, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 10 hr |
| Sep 16, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 23 min | |
| Sep 16, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 35 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.