Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 19, 1992Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 6:22 PM EST for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 1992, 6:22 PM EST (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 1992, 7:15 PM EST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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 1992-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 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 1992-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 6:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde50 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.