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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 28, 1992Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1992, 5:40 PM EDT for Camden County, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1992, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Camden County, NC, Currituck County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 688 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPasquotank35 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.