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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 17, 2000Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2000, 12:05 AM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 17, 2000, 12:05 AM EDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 55 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), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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 17, 12:33 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Beaufort, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

377 
WUUS52 KMHX 170405
SVRMHX
NCC031-170500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1205 AM EDT THU AUG 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT

* AT 1205 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH RIVER...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES SOUTH OF ORIENTAL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   NORTH RIVER...OPEN GROUNDS FARM AT 1210 AM EDT.
   OTWAY...STRAITS AT 1215 AM EDT.
   HARKERS ISLAND...SMYRNA AT 1220 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

LAT...LON 3499 7662 3490 7681 3414 7627 3428 7600
08

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, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 10:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 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, 3 hours 18 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 43 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, 56 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 16, 11:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	51 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.