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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 30, 1998Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 11:36 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 30, 1998, 11:36 PM EDT (03:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1998, 12:10 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 30, 11:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 63	Ocracoke, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 30, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	49 min
Jun 30, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	47 min
Jun 30, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven	47 min
Jun 30, 10:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998 Every 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.