Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 12:52 PM EDT for Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1994, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1994, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 21.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHAT 271652 RRA SVRHAT NCC187-271745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC 1252 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT IS NOW OVER MARTIN COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY SHORTLY...THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ACT NOW. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND SOMETIMES DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Bertie, Martin | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 9:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 10:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Perquimans | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Currituck | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 11:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Camden | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 11:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 11:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hertford | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Camden, Pasquotank | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Chowan, Perquimans | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 12:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Chowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Camden, Currituck | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.