Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 5:40 PM EDT for Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2000, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washington County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 162143 SVRMHX NCC187-162215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 540 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 540 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF PHELPS LAKE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLYMOUTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PLEASANT GROVE AT 550 PM EDT. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3580 7672 3572 7652 3606 7627 3617 7652 06
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 33 min |
| Jul 16, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 41 min |
| Jul 16, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 31 min |
| Jul 16, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 21 min |
| Jul 16, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones, Lenoir | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 31 min |
| Jul 16, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Pitt | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.