Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 6:25 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 9, 2000, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craven County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:35 PM EDT | Hail 1 | New Bern, NC |
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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1934 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 092226 SVRMHX NCC049-092315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 625 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 625 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW BERN...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ASKIN AT 645 PM EDT. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A POSSIBLE WATERSPOUT OVER THE NEUSE RIVER HEADING TOWARD BRIDGETON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO SEEK SHELTER. MOVE TO A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND CULVERTS. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE... THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN 10
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 Aug 9, 1:32 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 1:32 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 132 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 EXPECT SOME TSTMS TO FIRE ALONG SEABREEZE FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS TODAY AND AGAIN TOMORROW AS THERE IS NOT MUCH UPPER SUPPORT FOR CONVECTION OTHERWISE. WITH APPROACHING FRONT AND SOME UVM TOMORROW NIGHT AND FRIDAY CHANCES OF PCPN WILL INCREASE A LITTLE BUT STILL NO BIG DEAL. BEST OMEGA IS AROUND 06Z TOMORROW NIGHT. TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WILL STILL BE MUGGY WITH DP'S 75 TO 80 BUT FRIDAY DP'S EXPECTED TO BE ABOUT 5 DEGREES LOWER. TEMPS WILL BE A LITTLE COOLER FRIDAY WITH LOWER THICKNESSES AND A LITTLE MORE CLOUD COVER. AS MORNING AFD MENTIONED...LIGHT WINDS ALOFT AND PW OF 1.8 SO ANY TSTMS THAT DEVELOP WILL DUMP A LOT OF RAIN. AT 16Z MSAS SHOWS BEST MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND BEST LI'S OVER OUR CWA. EXTENDED...A CHC OF SHRA/TSTMS FRI NIGHT AND SAT MAINLY OVER S PART OF CWA THEN PARTLY CLOUDY SUNDAY AND MONDAY. LOW TEMPS A LITTLE COOLER WITH NEAR 70 INLAND FRIDAY NIGHT...MID 70S COASTAL. HIGHS SATURDAY MID 80S THEN 85-90 FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. LOWS SUNDAY AND MONDAY 65-70...EXCEPT LOWER 70S OUTER BANKS. CWF: SW FLOW CONTINUING THROUGH THU EVENING WITH SPEEDS A LITTLE HIGHER OVER N WATERS AS GRADIENT TIGHTER THERE. FRI A TOUGH CALL ON DIRECTION AS AVN AND NGM MOVE FRONT THROUGH FASTER THAN ETA. AT ANY RATE SPEEDS SHOULD BE 15 KT OR LESS. AM LEANING TOWARD VARIABLE WIND FOR N WATERS FRI AND SW FOR S WATERS. .MHX...NONE. WS
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.