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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 28, 1996Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 3:53 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
Jul 28, 1996, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Duplin County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 1996-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 764 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 1996-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
764 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 2:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret26 min
Jul 28, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene38 min
Jul 28, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow53 min
Jul 28, 5:47 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXOnslow28 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.