Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 3:48 AM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 15, 1998, 3:48 AM EDT (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 4:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craven County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 15, 2:55 AM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:55 AM EDT, 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.