Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 25, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinston, NC | Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in Kinston, including one oak tree which destroyed 3 cars. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 260029 SVRMHX NCC107-260100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 830 PM EDT MON SEP 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 828 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LA GRANGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAGRANGE AT 835 PM EDT. DAWSON...KINSTON AT 845 PM EDT. GRANGERS AT 855 PM EDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT 6TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN 15
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 Sep 25, 3:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 3:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 343 PM EDT MON SEP 25 2000 TNT...WILL GO WITH A SHWRS/TSTMS LIKELY FCST AS THE STRNG UPP LVL SYS ROTATES BY TO THE N. THIS FEATURE SHLD BRING A DECENT BATCH OF UVM ACRS THE AREA ALONG WITH A SFC WV OF LO PRES. DWPTS WILL BE HIGH ACRS MHX CWA AND THERE WILL ALSO BE A E-W ORIENTED BNDRY ARND. SOME OF THE ACTION OUT THERE NOW HAS HEATING TO THANK FOR ITS EXISTENCE...LTR ON TNT SOME DECENT DYNAMICS WILL BE ARND TO MINGLE WITH WARM/MOIST ATMOS. WILL GO WITH POPS ARND 60%ISH ACRS THE BOARD WITH LOW TEMPS 68 CSTL PLN TO 74 BCHS. TUE...STRNG UPP LVL DISTURB WILL BE ROTATING OFF THE MID-ATLC CST AND THIS WILL TAKE THE UVM WITH IT. LO AND MID LVL FLOW WILL BE TURNING WESTERLY AND THIS SHLD ALLOW DRIER AIR TO MOV ACRS ERN NC AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. THERE WILL LIKELY BE LINGERING CLDS AND THE CHC FOR A SHWR IN THE MORN...MAINLY EARLY...THEN SKIES WILL BEC P/C WITH THE AID OF STRNG DNSLOPE AND TREMENDOUS NEG THETA-E ADV. TEMPS COOLER THAN TDY AND DWPTS WILL BE LOWERING. TUE NGT...HI PRES AT THE SFC WILL BE ANCHORING ITSELF ACRS THE REG. ATMOS WILL CONT TO DRY OUT WITH LOWERING MEAN RH AND VRY LOW THETA-E VALUES. WILL CALL IT M/CLR...NICE TEMPS...AVN MUCH COOLER THAN FWC AND WILL COMPROMISE AND CALL IT UPP 50S MANY SPOTS. WED...MORE DRY AIR ACRS ERN NC AND IT LUKS QUITE NICE WITH SUNSHINE AND VRY PLEASANT TEMPS ALONG WITH COMFORTABLE HUMIDITY. TEMPS MID 70S. CWF...WILL HAV SCA UP FOR CSTL WTRS AND SNDS AS SFC WV TRACKS ACRS NC. MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS AND SNDS. GATES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 4:39 PM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-260300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC...COR FOR HEADER 439 PM EDT MON SEP 25 2000 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT... A DEVELOPING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA LATE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...AND WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS EVEN POSSIBLE. STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES...AND OTHER EMERGENCY PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE...FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. JME/CG
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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.