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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 3, 1997Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 1:21 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 3, 1997, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 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 17:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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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 Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT, 22 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT, 22 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
234 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

RDU: TNT...EVE CHC SHWR/TSTM ESP INLAND THEN P/C. OTR BNKS IT WL
EVENTUALLY BEC P/C. LOWS MID 60S. TUE...M/CLDY N AND OB WITH CHC
SHWR. 70ISH FOR HIGHS. CNTRL/S...M/C OR VAR CLDS CHC SHWR/TSTM.
MID/UPP 70S. TUE NGT...CLDY CHC SHWR OR DRIZZLE. UPP 50S/LO 60S.
WED...M/C OR VAR CLDS. 60S TO NR 70 N AND MID 70S S.

DISC: THICK CLD CVR WILL GO AWAY LATER THIS AFT. IT APPEARS CLDS AND
MARINE INFLUENCE HAS CUT THREAT FOR SVR WX IN MHX CWA FOR NOW. WL
HAV TO CONT TO MONITOR WITH ADDITIONAL HEATING UPCOMING THE REST OF
THIS AFT/EVE FOR A FEW TSTMS...BEST CHC WILL BE INLAND. ENUF DRY AIR
WORKING ARND UPP LOW FOR GENERALLY JUST P/C LTR TNT. FNT SLICING
THRU ERN NC ON TUE. OVR NRN AREAS IT WILL BE AN UNDERCUTTING FNT
WITH A LOT OF LOW CLDS AND A CHC FOR A SHWR. DOWN S ENUF WARMTH WILL
PROB OCCUR WITH COLD POOL STILL ALFT FOR SCT SHWRS/TSTMS AS FNT
SINKS S. EVERYBODY IN THE LOW CLD SOUP TUE NGT INTO WED MORNING WITH
ONSHR FLOW IN THE LO LVLS AND TROFFINESS ALFT. WK VORT COULD SPARK A
CPLE SHWRS OR SOME DRIZZLE. TUFF CALL IF CLDS BRK ANY ON WED...PROB
BEST TO LV M/CLDY AS ONSHR FLOW IN LO LVLS PERSISTS.

CWF...WILL TRY AS BEST I CAN TO WORD FCST FOR FNT COMING SLOLY SWD
ON TUE. AT THIS PT WILL ADVERTISE SCA CONDS PSBL UP N LTR TUE AND
TUE NGT AND GO WITH 20 KT GUSTY AND 5 FT. THIS GIVES MIDSHFT THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SEE ANTHR RUN TO SEE IF 25 KT WILL BE REACHED OR NOT.

.MHX...NONE.
GATES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:49 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1249 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1236 PM   PINK HILL                 NC
06/3/97   LENOIR                         MARBLE-SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
                                         LENOIR CO EMC.
CG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 12:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Lenoir	40 min
Jun 3, 1:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	39 min
Jun 3, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	62 min
Jun 3, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Onslow	40 min
Jun 3, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	49 min

Nearby

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.