Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2000, 4:39 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 28, 2000, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 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), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 282041 SVRMHX NCC031-282130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 439 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAPE LOOKOUT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HARKERS ISLAND AT 446 PM EDT. DAVIS AT 500 PM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO SEEK SHELTER. MOVE TO A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. PLEASE REPORT SEVnERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3462 7672 3450 7657 3480 7614 3498 7635
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 Apr 28, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 208 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000 TNGT: HAVE TO KEEP CHC OF CONVECTION LINGERING INTO EVENING GIVEN THREAT OF DESTAB IN APPROACHG CYCLONIC WARM SECTOR. HAIL STILL REMAINS A REAL THREAT LATE AFTN ERLY EVE. SFC LOW PROG TO EXIT COAST NR OREGON INLET BY 06Z SAT. XPT WINDY CONDITIONS TO ENSUE ON BACKSIDE. SAT IS COLD ALOFT WITH RESID MSTR AND PVA ACRS CWA AFTR 18Z SO MCLDY CHC SHRA. SAT NIGHT CLDS WANE AND SUNSHINE FOR SUNDAY. HOISTING SMALL CRAFT FLAGS. N TO NW PUNCH LATE TNGT. NOT SURE HOW STG IN THE NRN CSTL WATERS BUT WHAT LACKS IN WIND MAY BUILD IN SEAS IN VCNTY OF SFC LOW. .MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS AND4 SOUNDS. COLBY
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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.