Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 6:00 AM EST for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 14, 2000, 6:00 AM EST (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 6:45 AM EST
- In force
- 45 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), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 6:35 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 58 E | Morehead City, NC | Railroad crossing guards were broken in half and signs blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 141103 SVRMHX NCC031-141145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 600 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 AM EST * AT 600 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SWANSBORO OR 2 MILES WEST OF CEDAR POINT...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR CAPE CARTERET AROUND 605 AM EST. NEAR BROAD CREEK AROUND 610 AM EST. NEAR SALTER PATH AROUND 615 AM EST. NEAR PINE KNOLL SHORES AROUND 620 AM EST. NEAR ATLANTIC BEACH AROUND 625 AM EST. NEAR MOREHEAD CITY AROUND 625 PM. NEAR BEAUFORT AROUND 630 AM EST. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE TO NO ADVANCE WARNING. TAKE COVER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3476 7726 3458 7725 3458 7629 3483 7630
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 5:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 55 min |
| Feb 14, 6:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 46 min |
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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.