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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 16, 2024Duplin County, Onslow County, North Carolina

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 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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 8:25 PM EDTBeach Hazards StatementMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow24 hr
Sep 16, 10:02 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Onslow5 hr
Sep 16, 2:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow3 hr
Sep 16, 2:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX67 min
Sep 16, 3:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Onslow114 min
Sep 16, 6:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHXCarteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow10 hr
Sep 16, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX23 min
Sep 16, 7:10 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCarteret, Onslow35 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.