Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2000, 6:33 PM EDT for Bertie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 18, 2000, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bertie County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Merry Hill, NC | High winds blew down three trees at a residence. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Perquimans | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.