Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Nov 11, 1995, 8:04 PM EST (01:04 UTC)

Expired

Nov 11, 1995, 9:00 PM EST

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven County, NC, Martin County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KMHX 120059 RRA
SVRMHX
NCC013-049-103-117-133-120200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
804 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BEAUFORT COUNTY...CRAVEN COUNTY...JONES COUNTY
   ...MARTIN COUNTY...ONSLOW COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 8 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO MARTIN...BEAUFORT...CRAVEN...JONES AND ONSLOW
COUNTIES. THE LINE WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS AREAS FROM WILLIAMSTON SOUTH TO WASHINGTON...TRENTON AND
JACKSONVILLE BETWEEN 830 AND 900 PM. THIS DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS
SHOULD MOVE INTO AREAS ALONG THE WESTERN PAMLICO SOUND INCLUDING NEW BERBEFORE 9 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  AVOID STANDING BY WINDOWS. ONLY USE TELEPHONES
AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING THROUGH HEAVY
RAIN AND BE ALERT FOR AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
JH/RVT

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 11, 2:30 PM EST, 5 hours 34 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
230 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995

DISC: HD BEAUCOUP TRBLS W/88D BUT ONCE BACK UP NTED LARGE AREA OF SHWRS
CVRNG ERN NC.  AM WNDRNG NW ABOUT SVR WX PTNTL GIVEN CLD CVR AND
UNIMPRSV NMBRS OFF THIS MRNGS U/A RUN.  ONLY THNG GOING FOR IT IS
STRNG LO LVL WNDS VEERING W/HGHT.  NO QUESTN STRNG WNDS WLL GET TO THE
SFC...WNDR IF WE SHLD CNSDR HI WND WRNG FOR TNGT AS FRNT APPRCHS.  THIS
COULD PRBLY HNDL MST EVENTS.

CWF: WLL NOT SPLT CSTL WTRS AS GUIDNCE SHOS STRNG NW WNDS ALL SCTRS TMRW
WHCH MNS THE SRN WTRS SHLD BE JST AS RUF AS NRN WTRS.  IF THEY HAD SHFTD
MR NRTHRLY WLD HV CNSDRED IT.  GIVEN CRNT BOUY DATA....STRM WRNGS WLD
PRBLY BE JSTIFIED THIS EVE AND ERLY SUN.

.MHX...GALE (STORM) WRNG CSTL WTS S OF VA BEACH TO LITTLE RIVER INLET.
       GALE WRNG FOR THE SOUNDS.

DB

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.