Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 14, 1987Gates County, Hertford County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1987, 2:02 PM EDT for Gates County, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1987, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1987, 2:50 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 14, 2:05 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Hertford, NC
Jul 14, 2:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Gates, NC
Jul 14, 2:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Gates, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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 141802
SVRHAT
NCC091-073-141850-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
202 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
 
NORTH CAROLINA... NORTHERN HERTFORD... WESTERN GATES
                                                                         
THE HERTFORD COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED LARGE HAIL AND STRONG 
GUSTY WINDS ALONG HIGHWAY 11 OUTSIDE MURFREESBORO. HAIL AS LARGE AS A 
LARGE MARBLE WAS REPORTED. 
                             
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM AND CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.  FIND SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
                                                                         
                                                                         
 
JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.