Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Deep Run, NC | |
| Jun 15, 3:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Kinston, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMHX 151914 SVRMHX NCC107-151945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC 315 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN LENOIR COUNTY AT 310 PM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN DEEP RUN ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF KINSTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH TO BETWEEN PINK HILL AND JONESTOWN THROUGH 345 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID STANDING BY WINDOWS. ONLPY 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. JME &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.