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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

November 11, 1995Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 8:10 PM EST for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 11, 1995, 8:10 PM EST (01:10 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 1995, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Pitt County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.7

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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.

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 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 2:30 PM EST, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 7:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	45 min
Nov 11, 7:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	45 min
Nov 11, 8:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	56 min
Nov 11, 8:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Martin	56 min
Nov 11, 8:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	40 min
Nov 11, 8:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	40 min
Nov 11, 8:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	40 min
Nov 11, 9:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	37 min
Nov 11, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare, Hyde	65 min
Nov 11, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	65 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.