Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 7:37 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1995, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyrrell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 11, 6:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
NCZ080-095-093-047-090-079-081-092-091-029-104-098-094-503-044- 046-045-502-501-103-112330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC 629 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH 11 PM... ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING FROM SOUTHERN PITT COUNTY EAST THROUGH BEAUFORT AND HYDE COUNTIES... AT 625 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER IN NEWPORT INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE MATTAMUSKEET IN CENTRAL MAINLAND HYDE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WAS POSSIBLY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES... BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE WEST SHORE OF THE PAMLICO SOUND. PERSONS AND MARINE INTERESTS FROM WYSOCKING BAY NORTH TO ENGELHARD SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM SHOULD AFFECT THESE AREAS AROUND 645 PM. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY FROM EAST OF GRIFTON IN SOUTHERN PITT COUNTY EAST THROUGH A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL BEAUFORT COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE PAMLICO RIVER THROUGH 7 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RVT
Special weather statement, May 11, 7:29 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
NCZ080-095-093-047-090-079-081-092-091-029-104-098-094-503-044- 046-045-502-501-103-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC 729 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH BEAUFORT AND MAINLAND HYDE COUNTIES... AT 725 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL BEAUFORT COUNTY INCLUDING THE PAMLICO RIVER. AT 710 PM BEAUFORT COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RECIEVED A REPORT OF PEA SIZE HAIL IN THE TOWN OF BAYVIEW. THE STRONGEST STORM SHOULD MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS PAMLICO BEACH INTO WESTERN HYDE COUNTY NEAR BEULAH BY 745 PM. MARINE INTERESTS ALONG THE ALBEMARLE SOUND REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLITY OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH 8 PM AS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR EDENTON MOVE EAST. ELSEWHERE...PERSONS IN GREENE...LENOIR...AND GREENE COUN2TIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE NEXT HOUR AS POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER JOHNSTON COUNTY APPROACH THE WESTERN COASTAL PLAIN. RVT &
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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.