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

June 24, 1992Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 8:19 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1992, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1992, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Martin County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 250018
SVRHAT
NCC117-250045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
819 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...MARTIN COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO MARTIN COUNTY SOUTH
OF WILLIAMSTON. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN GOLFBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH PITT COUNTY OVER THE PAST HALF HOUR.
 
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

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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.