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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 31, 1989Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1989, 3:37 PM EST for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 1989, 3:37 PM EST (20:37 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1989, 4:30 PM EST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Bertie 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 1989-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1989-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 312045 RRA
SVRHAT
NCC015-312130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
337 PM EST FRI MAR 31 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
          ...BERTIE

RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH BERTIE COUNTY
NEAR THE TOWNS OF WOODVILLE AND REPUBLICAN. THE STORMS ARE MOVING
TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTN	ING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LEIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 3:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHertford42 min
Mar 31, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGates45 min
Mar 31, 4:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPasquotank, Perquimans51 min
Mar 31, 4:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCamden, Pasquotank56 min
Mar 31, 4:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPerquimans56 min
Mar 31, 5:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBertie, Martin67 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.