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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 26, 1994Bertie County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1994, 4:43 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 1994, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1994, 5:08 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Bertie County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 941 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
941 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHAT 262043 RRA
SVRHAT
NCC015-091-262145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
443 PM EDT MON SEP 26 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CAPE HATTERAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN BERTIE COUNTY...WESTERN HERTFORD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWESTERN BERTIE
COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 KNOTS AND WILL MOVE
INTO WESTERN HERTFORD COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY MINUTES.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGINGX 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXMartin61 min
Sep 26, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHertford62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.