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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 15, 1996Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 4:35 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Jones County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 4:50 PM EDTHail 1Potters Hill, 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 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
Jun 15, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir30 min
Jun 15, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin32 min
Jun 15, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.