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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

November 11, 1995Washington County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 8:35 PM EST for Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1995, 8:35 PM EST (01:35 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1995, 9:15 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-11-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 416 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-11-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 305 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
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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMHX 120137 RRA
SVRMHX
NCC031-137-187-120215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
835 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CARTERET COUNTY...PAMLICO COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 832 PM...A LINE OF DANGEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING THE
IMMEDIATE COASTAL COUNTIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE LINE WAS
MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT AREAS AROUND
PLYMOUTH...HOBUKEN...BAYBORO AND MOREHEAD CITY AROUND 9 PM. THESE ARE
VERY DAMAGING STORMS THAT WILL PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
JH/RVT

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, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 2:30 PM EST, 6 hours 5 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 7:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin45 min
Nov 11, 7:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt45 min
Nov 11, 8:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones, Onslow56 min
Nov 11, 8:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Martin56 min
Nov 11, 8:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt50 min
Nov 11, 8:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico40 min
Nov 11, 8:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret40 min
Nov 11, 9:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret37 min
Nov 11, 9:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare, Hyde65 min
Nov 11, 9:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXTyrrell65 min

Nearby

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.