Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 10:43 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2000, 10:43 PM EDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beaufort County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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 16, 11:06 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Washington, 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 1411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 170243 SVRMHX NCC013-170330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1043 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUFORT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1043 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF WASHINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MINEOLA AT 1050 PM EDT. WASHINGTON AT 1055 PM EDT. BATH AT 1105 PM EDT. YEATESVILLE AT 1110 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. NNNNB 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 16, 10:02 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 10:02 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1002 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000 LINE OF STORMS AHEAD OF COLD FRONT STILL HOLDING ON STRONG. WILL HAVE TO UP POPS ALL ZONES. CWF: WINDS AT DSLN7 AND FPSN7 ARE OVER 20 KT...BUT ELSEWHERE 15 TO 20 KT RANGE LOOKS GOOD. WILL LEAVE AS IS. .MHX...NONE. RSB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 16, 8:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
847 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0820 PM ALLIGATOR RIVER BRIDGE NC 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/16/00 TYRRELL 60 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED
BY THE ALLIGATOR RIVER
BRIDGE TENDER.
0834 PM MANNS HARBOR NC 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/16/00 MAINLAND DARE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
60 MPH WIND GUSTS BETWEEN
MANNS HARBOR AND STUMPY
POINT.
JMELocal storm report, Aug 16, 10:22 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
1022 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0912 PM 3 E CRESWELL NC .88 INCH HAIL
08/16/00 WASHINGTON
0940 PM 12 E CRESWELL NC WIND DAMAGE
08/16/00 TYRRELL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
REPORTED A TREE DOWN ACROSS
NEWLANDS ROAD EAST OF
CRESWELL IN TYRRELL COUNTY.
JMEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 12:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 38 min |
| Aug 17, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 41 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.