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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 13, 2000Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2000, 3:24 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
Aug 13, 2000, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 15 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 131925
SVRMHX
NCC031-132000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
324 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 324 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CEDAR POINT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF EMERALD ISLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   EMERALD ISLE AT 335 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 3480 7717 3463 7722 3452 7679 3474 7673

13

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin, Lenoir52 min
Aug 13, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt39 min
Aug 13, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones38 min
Aug 13, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt45 min
Aug 13, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.