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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 11, 1995Tyrrell County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
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

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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 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.