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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 27, 1994Perquimans County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 10:21 AM EDT for Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 11:15 AM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Perquimans County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 1994-06-27Temperature 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 1994-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 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
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

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBertie, Martin52 min
Jun 27, 9:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington35 min
Jun 27, 10:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCurrituck45 min
Jun 27, 11:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCamden44 min
Jun 27, 11:30 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXMartin45 min
Jun 27, 11:39 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXTyrrell36 min
Jun 27, 11:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHertford51 min
Jun 27, 12:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCamden, Pasquotank53 min
Jun 27, 12:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXChowan, Perquimans53 min
Jun 27, 12:42 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXMartin48 min
Jun 27, 12:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington53 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXChowan, Pasquotank, Perquimans47 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCamden, Currituck47 min
Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCamden, Currituck, Pasquotank54 min
Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell54 min
Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare36 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.