Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2000, 12:19 AM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 17, 2000, 12:19 AM EDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 58 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 170419 SVRMHX NCC133-170500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1219 AM EDT THU AUG 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 1219 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHLANDS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF BEULAVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RICHLANDS AT 1225 AM EDT. CATHERINE LAKE...HALF MOON AT 1230 AM EDT. JACKSONVILLE AT 1235 AM EDT. CAMP LEJEUNE...NEW RIVER AIR STATION AT 1240 AM EDT. SNEADS FERRY AT 1250 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 TH`E NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN 17 LAT...LON 3504 7758 3493 7776 3450 7743 3463 7720
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 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 10:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 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 32 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, 1 hour 57 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.
JMELocal storm report, Aug 16, 11:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 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
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, 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, 12:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.