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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 16, 2000Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 11:39 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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, 11:39 PM EDT (03:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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, 11:55 PM EDT	Hail 1	Bayboro, NC
Aug 17, 12:15 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence, NC	A tree was blown over destroying a mobile home.

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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 170340
SVRMHX
NCC137-170430-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1139 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAMLICO COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 1139 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF SILVER HILL...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  WEST OF BAYBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   BAYBORO AT 1145 PM EDT.
   FLORENCE AT MIDNIGHT EDT.
   ORIENTAL...PAMLICO AT 1205 AM 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

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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, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 10:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 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, 2 hours 52 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.

JME

Local storm report, Aug 16, 10:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 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.

JME

Local storm report, Aug 16, 11:09 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
1109 PM EDT WED AUG 16 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 PM    PLYMOUTH                  NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/16/00   WASHINGTON

1106 PM    WASHINGTON                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/00   BEAUFORT

JME

The 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, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort	47 min
Aug 16, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	42 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.