Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 23, 1998Carteret County, Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 9:04 PM EDT for Carteret County, Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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 23, 1998, 9:04 PM EDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1998, 10:05 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 9:15 PM EDTHail 0.75Clark, NC
Jun 23, 9:15 PM EDTThunderstorm WindClark, NC
Jun 23, 9:50 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Newport, 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 23, 8:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow47 min
Jun 23, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones49 min
Jun 23, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.