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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 7, 1995Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 5:26 PM EDT for Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1995, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 7, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
230 PM EDT WED JUN 7 1995

RDU: 20/30 POP THIS EVNG THEN NO POPS TIL FRI WITH ANTHR 20 POP.
GUID TEMPS LOOK GOOD WITH VRY WRM 850 TEMPS AND DWNSLP COMPONENT TO
WND.  ON THE CWF WILL MAINTAIN THE SPLIT TO ACCOUNT FOR BACKDOOR
FRNTL SYSTEM OVR THE NRN WTRS.  SPEEDS/SEAS BELOW SCA EXPECTED.

DISC: ADAP SHOWG DEEP INSTAB POCKET OVR INTERIOR ESTRN NC.  ACTIVITY
BEGINING TO FIRE IN THIS REGION AND WILL BE AIDED BY APPRCHG MID LVL
S/W.  IF ACTIVITY CAN DVLP FURTHER NE IT MAY BE ENHANCED BY
RESULTANT SEA BREEZE ALNG THE COAST WHICH SHOWS UP WELL ON KMHX
88-D.  GSO MODIFIED SOUNDG HAD A CAPE OF 2000 AND L.I. OF -6.  WBZ
BELOW 10000 FT SUGGESTS LARGE HAIL PRIMARY SVR THREAT.  ACTIVITY
WILL SUBSIDE AS S/W PASSES COAST BEFORE MID.  GRIDDED DATA/PC CAPE
INDICATED BEST CHC FOR TRW WOULD PRIMARILY S OF THE MHX CWA CLOSEST
TO TRACK OF S/W AND STRNGST LOW LVL CONV.

TOM DWNSLP W FLOW SFC/ALFT TO CONTINUE WITH 850 TEMPS NR 20C.  TEMPS
INALND WILL SOAR INTO THE MID 90S AT LEAST.  FWC INDICATG UPPER 90S
AT EWN AND NCA! SHOULD EVEN REACH NR 90 AT THE BEACHES AND OB WITH
OFFSHORE FLOW.  GRIDDED DATA INDICATED VERY LITTLE LIFT/FOCUS FOR
CONVECTION ON THU WITH ANTHR WK S/W PROGGED THRU BY THU EVNG.  WRM
MID LVL TEMPS SHUD PRECLUDE ANY DVLPMNT.  COULD BE SOME WIDELY SCT
ON FRI AS BACKDOOR FRNT CROSSES INTO NRN NC.

CWF: FLOW TO REMAIN BASICALLY W THRU THE PERIOD WITH WNDS SHIFTING
TO THEN-NE LATE THU NIGHT/FRI OVR THE NRN WTRS.  SPEEDS GENERALLY
15-20 KTS.  IN THE SHORT TERM WILL CANCELL SCA AS WNDS/SEAS OVR MOST
OF THE NRN WTRS NOW BELOW SCA CRITERIA AND SHOULD SUBSIDE AT DSNL BY
THE TIME THE FCST GOES TO PRESS.

.MHX...NONE.

JME

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:45 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	45 min

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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.