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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 10, 1994Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1994, 6:46 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1994, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1994, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
29 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, 10.8 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 1994-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1432 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 1994-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare36 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.