Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Aug 16, 2000, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Dare County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS52 KMHX 170041
SVRMHX
NCC055-170130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
839 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 839 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MANTEO...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MANNS HARBOR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   MANTEO AT 845 PM EDT.   
   WANCHESE AT 850 PM EDT.

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS 2ARE 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
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NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 16, 3:20 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
320 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000

TNT...COLD FRONT THAT IS NOW UP IN CNTRL VA WILL BE EASING DOWN INTO
MHX CWA OVN. RITE NOW THERE IS NOT MUCH HAPPENING WITH THE FNT AS
UPP SUPPORT IS LACKING AND ATMOS IS DRY WITH A FAIR AMT OF DNSLOPE
TRAJS LIMITING CONVRG. OVR MHX CWA TNT THERE IS STILL NOT MUCH UPP
SUPPORT BUT I WILL ALLOW FOR A SLGT CHC OF A TSTM FOR A CPLE
REASONS...1. THETA-E VALUES GET A LOT BTR OVN WITH A NICE THETA-E
RDG OVR MHX CWA BETWEEN 00Z AND 09Z. THIS LITTLE BIT OF MOIST MITE
BE JUST ENUF TO GET A FEW CELLS GOING DESPITE LOSING HEATING. 2.
MOIST CONVRG ALSO GETS A BIT BTR OVN AS COMPARED TO NOW. FOR THESE
REASONS WILL ALLOW FOR A SLGT CHC AS THE FNT SLIPS ACRS REG FRM N TO
S BETWEEN 05Z AND 11Z. THU...ATMOS DRIES OUT BEHIND WK FROPA. IT
LUKS LIKE A FAIRLY NICE DAY WITH LOW MEAN RH AND A GD DEAL OF
SUNSHINE. TEMPS NOT QUITE AS HOT AS TDY AS ATMOS COOLS A BIT...WILL
CALL HI TEMPS UPP 80S INLAND WITH 80-85 OTR BNKS WITH NE WND. THU
NGT...NOT TOO BAD WITH SFC HI PRES MOVG OFF THE CST AND UPP SUPPORT
REMAINING TO THE N. CLR/PC SKIES. FRI...ANTHR HOT DAY AS 85H TEMPS
FCST TO SHOOT UP TO NR 20C DURING THE AFT WITH SOME DNSLOPE TRAJS
ARND TOO!  ANTHR FNT APPROACHING THE REG BY LATE IN THE DAY WITH
INCRNG MEAN RH AND DECENT THETA-E VALUES. THIS SHLD BRNG A CHC FOR
LATE AFT TSTMS. HI TEMPS MID 90S CSTL PLN AND 90-95 MOST OTR SPOTS.

CWF...NO FLGS TNT. SW WND THE FIRST PART OF TNT...THEN SHFTNG TO N
FROM N TO S AFT MIDNGT. HIEST SW SPDS FRM DSLN7 ON S OVN. NE WNDS
OVR THE NRN WTRS AND SNDS ON THU...A LITTLE TRICKY OVR CNTRL/SRN
WTRS BUT PROB LGT NE WILL BE THE RULE.

.MHX...NONE.
GATES

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

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.