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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 2, 1995Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1995, 3:30 AM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 1995, 3:30 AM EDT (07:30 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1995, 4:04 AM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Craven County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 2:44 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
NCZ079-044-020745-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
242 AM EDT TUE MAY 2 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 6
AM...

AT 235 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH INTO GREENE COUNTY WEST OF SNOW HILL. THIS STORM
WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS IT PASSES ACROSS GREENE COUNTY AND
INTO PITT COUNTY AFTER 3 AM.

PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AS THE STORMS PASS ACROSS THE AREA.  SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD
THE WEATHER BECOME UNUSUALLY THREATENING.

STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES
OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 3:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir, Pitt45 min
May 2, 3:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort60 min
May 2, 3:50 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort40 min
May 2, 4:16 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde44 min
May 2, 4:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.