Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Nov 11, 1995, 9:10 PM EST (02:10 UTC)

Expired

Nov 11, 1995, 10:15 PM EST

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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WUUS01 KMHX 120210 RRA
SVRMHX
NCC095-055-095-055-177-120315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
910 PM EST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...HYDE COUNTY...MAINLAND DARE COUNTY
   ...OCRACOKE IN HYDE COUNTY...OUTER BANKS IN DARE COUNTY
   ...TYRRELL COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 908 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM CRESWELL SOUTH TO HOBUCKEN AND MOREHEAD CITY. THE
LINE OF STORMS CONTINUED TO MARCH EAST AT 45 MPH. PERSONS ALONG THE
COASTAL COUNTIES FROM COLUMBIA AND MANNS HARBOR SOUTH TO SWANQUARTER
AND DOWN EAST CARTERET COUNTY SHOULD EXPECT STORMS WITH DAMAGING
WINDS IN THE NEXT HOUR.
 
ANOTHER CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE CENTRAL PAMLICO
SOUND SOUTH TO OCRACOKE AND CAPE LOOKOUT. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE
DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS THE OUTER BANKS PRIOR TO 10 PM. THE MOST INTENSE
STORMS WERE NEAR OCRACOKE AND WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH ACROSS MOST
OF THE OUTER BANKS.
 
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.
 
 
RVT/JH

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 40 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.