Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
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.
- 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 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.
| 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, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 51 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.