Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2000, 2:54 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2000, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 3:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Verona, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 131855 SVRMHX NCC133-131945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 254 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 254 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF NEW RIVER AIR STATION...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEW RIVER AIR STATION AT 305 PM EDT. CAMP LEJEUNE AT 320 PM EDT. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3483 7754 3468 7766 3444 7728 3465 7712 13
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 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 230 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 2000 UPR LOW WILL MOVE SE AND OVER ERN NC THIS EVENING...THEN SLOWLY PUSH OFFSHORE LTR TNGHT INTO MON. WITH COLD POOL ALOFT OVER REGION AND WEAK SPOKES OF VORT ROTATING AROUND UPR LOW WL CONT TO NEED MENTION OF SHRA POSS TSRA TNGHT. PLAN ON GOING WITH HIGHEST POP NE CST WITH LOWER POPS FURTHER S. ON MON DEEPEST MOISTURE WL BE MVG OFF CST WITH UPR LOW. WL PROB STILL NEED SMALL POP FOR NE CST/OTR BNKS BUT MST AREAS INLAND SHLD REMAIN DRY. LOOKS QUIET MON NIGHT INTO TUE WITH SHRP UPR TRF JUST OFFSHR. MEAN RH IS QUITE LOW AND SHLD HAVE SUBSIDENCE ACRS AREA. EXPECT MCLR SKIES WITH NO MENTION OF RAIN. TEMPS QUITE PLEASANT FOR MID AUGUST...LOWS AWAY FROM WTR WILL DROP WELL INTO THE 60S...WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S. CWF: MAINLY NW FLOW THROUGH MON NIGHT. GRDNT TIGHTEST TNGHT AND WL CONT 15 TO 20 KTS UP N. AS SFC LOW WEAKENS MON NIGqHT INTO TUE SPEEDS SHLD DECREASE WITH SHFT TO SW LIKELY TUE AFTN AS LOW DISSIPATES AND FNRT MVS TWRD OH VLY RGN. SWELLS FROM ALBERTO SEEM TO BE DECREASING FROM S TO N AND WL SEE SEAS SLOWLY SUBSIDE. .MHX...NONE. FREDERICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.