Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 24, 1999Camden County, Pasquotank County, North Carolina

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 3:08 PM EDT for Camden County, Pasquotank 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
May 24, 1999, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1999, 3:40 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Wakefield, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Camden County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1999-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 575 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1999-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
575 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQKing William46 min
May 24, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQKing and Queen34 min
May 24, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQEssex, Richmond49 min
May 24, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQYork33 min
May 24, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGloucester33 min
May 24, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQIsle of Wight31 min
May 24, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMathews35 min
May 24, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Suffolk32 min
May 24, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth31 min
May 24, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Norfolk31 min
May 24, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach34 min
May 24, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAccomack33 min
May 24, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie36 min
May 24, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChowan, Perquimans34 min
May 24, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQBertie34 min
May 24, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCamden, Currituck33 min
May 24, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQPasquotank33 min
May 24, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSomerset33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.