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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 5, 1992Tyrrell County, Washington County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 246 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 1992-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell49 min
Jun 5, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBertie, Martin35 min
Jun 5, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell35 min
Jun 5, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCurrituck, Dare50 min
Jun 5, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCurrituck45 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.