Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

May 1, 1997, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)

Expired

May 1, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT

In force

52 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Pitt County, 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.

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TTAA00 KMHX 012211 RRA
SVRMHX
NCC147-012300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
608 PM EDT THU MAY 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...PITT COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN NEWPORT INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EDGECOMBE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH AND HAS
HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORM WILL
LIKELY PASS PASS BETWEEN GREENVILLE AND OAKLEY BETWEEN 615 AND 630 PM
WITH LARGE HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 1, 2:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
209 PM EDT THU MAY 1 1997

RDU: PRBLY NEED TO ADD SML EVE POP ESPCLY FRM CNTRL CST/OUTER BANKS N OTRW
BCMG CLR OVRNGT INTO FRI. BECMG PC FRI NGT WITH PSBL ISOLD SHRA S CST LT.
PC/WNDY/WRM SAT WITH MNLY AFTN SHRA/TSRA CHCS. TEMP GUID CLS WITH BLO GUID
NUMBERS FRI NGT AND WARMER FAN MORE IN LINE SAT.

CWF: SWLY GRAD CONTG TO GRDLY INCRS OVR THE WTRS THIS AFTN AND WILL HAVE TO
CONT MARG SCA AS MIX TO WTR INCRS AHD OF THE FRNT THIS EVE. QUICK SHOT OF
CAA BHND FROPA SHUD KEEP GRAD ARND 20 KTS TIL MORN AND THEN RELAX TO 15 KTS
OR LESS AS RDG BLDS OVRHD FRI. AS SFC HIGH SLIPS OFFSHR FRI NGT WL SEE FLW
QUICKLY VEER TO SE AND EVNTLY S SAT WITH GRAD INCRSG BACK TO AOA SCA CRIT.
MAY BE CLS TO GALE N LTR SAT BUT CAN HOLD OFF FOR NOW.

DISC: CD FRNT ACRS THE MTNS SLWLY EDGING EWD AND SHUD FINALLY RCH THE WTRS
THIS EVE. BST MCON/LIFT TO PASS N W/ PREFNTL BUT LKLY ENHANCED ERLY ON PER
RESULTANT BRZ SO APRS BST EVE CHCS MNLY FRM EWN N PER L2Z. WEAK SFC RIDGING
TO FOLLOW THE FRNT FRI BEFORE GETTING KICKED OFFSHR BY UPSTREAM S/W TROF FRI
NGT. VEERING ELY FLW TO S FRI NGT CUD SPARK LW LVL SHRA OFF WTR BY ERLY SAT
AS INDCTD BY ETA SIGMA LVL RH OTRW BCMG PC. MOISTURE ON THE INCRS FRM W TO
E SAT AS H5 TROF PROPELS SFC CD FRNT SLWLY EWD INTO CNTRL NC BY EVE. WL
LKLY SEE PREFRNTL ACTIVITY DVLP E WELL AHD OF FRNT WITH MNLY AFTN/EVE
SCENARIO POPS THE BST BET. WITH ONLY WK CAA BHND FRNT CRNT TEMPS TNGT/FRI
APR GUD. LIKE SLGHTLY BLO GUID FRI NGT WITH RDG SLW TO MOV E AND WRMR
FAN SAT PER INCRSG WAA.

.MHX...SCA COASTAL WATERS AND SOUNDS.
JH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.