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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 17, 1988Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1988, 5:38 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1988, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1988, 6:40 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Martin 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1988-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1988-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-259 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 10:16 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXPerquimans34 min
May 17, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHertford56 min
May 17, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGates65 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.