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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 4, 1993Gates County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 8:43 PM EDT for Gates County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1993, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1993, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Gates County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 1993-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1149 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 1993-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBertie67 min
Jun 5, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBertie, Martin, Washington57 min
Jun 5, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCurrituck59 min
Jun 5, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXMartin69 min
Jun 5, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell, Washington69 min
Jun 5, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde51 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.