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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 28, 1986Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1986, 6:49 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 71 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1986, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1986, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
71 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1986-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1986-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 282249
SVRHAT
NCC055-290000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HATTERAS NC
649 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND 
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE 
FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

NORTH CAROLINA...EXTREME EASTERN DARE AND AND ADJACENT WATERS OF 
 PAMLICO SOUND
...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE
COUNTIES JUST MENTIONED

AT 645 PM, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS EXTENDED FROM OREGON LNLET SOUTHWEST THROUGH ENGELHARD...
TO SWANQUARTER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING THE PAMLICO
SOUND BY 700 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.

THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM IS OVER OR NEAR RODANTHE...SALVO...
AND WAVES ON THE OUTER BANKS.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY
OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

THE SEVERE WEATHER WARNING THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER FOR  EASTERN
DARE AND ADJACENT WATERS EXPIRED EFFECTIVE AT 645 PM EDT.

MARINERS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR...OR PREPARE
YOUR VESSEL FOR ROUGH WEATHER CONDITIONS. GUSTY WINDS AND HIGHER SEAS
WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

  THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES EXIST WITHIN THIS AREA AND ALL
 PERSONS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CAREFULLY AND BE AWARE
 OF ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

 DR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDare69 min

Nearby

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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.