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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 26, 1996Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1996, 3:02 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 1996, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 10:35 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones25 min
Apr 26, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones40 min
Apr 26, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin, Onslow51 min
Apr 26, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven51 min
Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico43 min
Apr 26, 3:36 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDare39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.