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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 10, 2000Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 11:57 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
May 10, 2000, 11:57 PM EDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hyde County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 307 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

007 
WUUS52 KMHX 110356
SVRMHX
NCC095-110430-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1157 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MAINLAND HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 1155 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENGELHARD...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ENGELHARD AT MIDNIGHT EDT.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

NNNN

LAT...LON 3568 7600 3557 7617 3522 7586 3537 7565

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 May 10, 9:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 9:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
913 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

MAIN QUESTION FOR THIS UPDATE IS HOW TO HANDLE POPS. THERE IS ABOUT
A 3 HR WINDOW FOR WIDELY SCT SHOWERS OR TSTMS TO DEVELOP...BUT THE
OVERALL SYNOPTIC AND MESO SCALE ENVIRONMENTS ARE BECOMING LESS
FAVORABLE. LOSS OF INSOLATION AND LARGE MARITIME INFLUX INTO THE LOW
LEVELS WILL CERTAINLY INHIBIT CONVECTION. IN ADDITION...IT APPEARS
THAT A SPEED MAX WHICH ENHANCED CONVECTION IN VCNTY OF CLT IS ABOUT
TO MOVE OFFSHORE. AM HESITANT TO TAKE POPS COMPLETELY OUT THOUGH.
FRONT IS NR RDU/SOP AND COULD INTERACT WITH REMNANTS OF RESULTANT
BREEZE. MSAS INDICATING ENOUGH WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND INSTAB
TO KEEP A RISK OF SOMETHING DEVELOPING TIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT. THUS WILL
DROP POPS TO 20%. OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S LOOK ON TRACK.

SCA CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ON THE WATERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF
THE NIGHT WITH A RAPID IMPROVEMENT EXPECTED THU AS BUBBLE HIGH
BUILDS OVR THE REGION.

.MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS AND SNDS.

ELARDO

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.