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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 19, 1992Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 6:40 PM EST for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 19, 1992, 6:40 PM EST (23:40 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 1992, 7:30 PM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Hyde County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 192342
SVRHAT
NCC095-200030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
640 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...INLAND HYDE COUNTY
 
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF LAKE
MATTAMUSKEET OF HYDE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50
MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 MPH TO OVER 100
MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY
DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.