Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993

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

June 4, 1993Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 7:46 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1993, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1993, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Bertie County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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 12:00Z on 1993-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1626 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 1993-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 235 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
1626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
12.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXMartin, Washington63 min
Jun 4, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXChowan, Perquimans63 min
Jun 4, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell63 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.