Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1997, 10:17 AM EDT for Greene County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- May 3, 1997, 10:17 AM EDT (14:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1997, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Walstonburg, NC | Trees down and roads flooded. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 9:44 AM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 9:44 AM EDT, 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
944 AM EDT SAT MAY 3 1997
RDU: NOT MUCH CHANGE TO GOING FCST ALTHO CSTL PLNS WILL LKLY SEE A LULL
ERLY THIS AFTN AS TSRA LN ENTERS THE CST SHORTLY. TEMPS QUICKLY RISING TO
ARND 80 BEFORE LINE ARRIVES. OUTER BANKS GNRLY 70-75 GIVEN SW TRAJ.
CWF: WILL MAKE A FEW CHGS TO INIT CONDS OTRW GOING FCST LOOKS GOOD AS
GRAD LKLY TO GET A BOOST FRM FORCING OF APCHG LINE THIS MORN. MAY SEE
BRF GALE SRN WTRS AS MIX TO WTR INCRS BUT LKLY SHORT IF PRECIP MAKES IT
TO THE WTRS AND DAMPENS GRAD A BIT.
DISC: RADAR SHWS SQUALL LN OVR THE PIEDMONT HAULING EWD TWD THE CSTL PLNS
ATTM AS PREFRNTL/OUTFLOW BNDRY BOWS EWD. BST CAPE(1600) AWAITS ACRS THE
CNTRL CST/PLNS AND MAY SEE TSRA ENHANCE ESPCLY N(PER SMC) BEFORE CROSSING
INTO THE RESULTANT AIR IN THE NXT FEW HRS. MORN TIMING PLUS BST LLJ/DEEP
MSTR N AND THETA WELL S LKLY TO WKN AREAS S OF EWN BUT IFFY. LKLY TO SEE
SECONDARY BATCH FORM CST ALNG CSTL CNVRGNC THIS AFTN AND INLND PER ACTUAL
FRNT APCHG BUT PRBLY WITH LESS SVR PTNL GIVEN CRNT ACTIVITY.
.MHX...GALE WARNING CSTL WATERS N OF CAPE LOOKOUT.
SCA CAPE LOOKOUT S AND SOUNDS.
JHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.