Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1999, 3:42 PM EDT for Duplin County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 24, 1999, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1999, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Duplin County, NC, Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Kenansville, NC | Large trees down in Kenansville. |
| Jul 24, 4:06 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | La Grange, NC | Large trees down in La Grange. |
| Jul 24, 4:06 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 | Pink Hill, NC | Severe roof damage in Pink HIll. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 45 min |
| Jul 24, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 45 min |
| Jul 24, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.