The Newport District SKYWARNTM covers a fifteen-county area within Eastern North Carolina and serves the Newport-Morehead City National Weather Service Office by providing real-time conditions on the ground when severe weather strikes. If you are new to the Newport District SKYWARNTM website, please see our Welcome page for information on our technologies that we use to help manage the program.
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Warning: MHXT0053z
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
SOUTHERN LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT
* AT 850 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR KORNEGAY...
OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 8 MPH.
* THE TORNAD