Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2000, 6:26 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2000, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
278 WUUS52 KMHX 212226 SVRMHX NCC107-212315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 626 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PINK HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PINK HILL AT 625 PM EDT. DEEP RUN AT 635 PM EDT. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN
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 21, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 236 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000 ...NORTHERN COUNTIES TO SEE MORE BENEFICIAL RAINS...BUT HOW ABOUT THE SOUTH?... THE 12Z MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND INITIALIZED THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN WELL. THEY ALSO ARE CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS RUNS IN INDICATING AN ACTIVE NIGHT ACROSS ESTRN NC. ALL THE MODELS BRING A SHORTWAVE ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND INDUCE CYCLOGENESIS ALONG THE STNRY FRONT BISECTING NC ATTM. NOT MUCH HAPPENING YET AS CLOUDS INHIBITING CONVECTIVE TEMPS FROM BEING REACHED. SHOULD SEE CONVECTION FORM LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AS MSAS INDICATING LI'S NR -7 IN VCNTY OF FRONT. MODELS BRING BEST LIFT/MOIST INTO THE REGION LATE THIS EVENING. ALL AGREE THAT THE NRN TIER WILL SEE THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY WITH THE AVN THE FURTHEST N AND THE ETA A LITTLE MORE GENEROUS HERE ON THE SE COAST. YSTDY THE AVN WAS BEST ON THE TIMING OF THE EVENING MCS AND ITS'S OMEGA FIELD TONIGHT IS SUPPORTED BY A DIFL MAXIMA ON THE 12Z ETA. THUS WILL GO LIKELY (60%) POPS FOR THE NRN COUNTIES AND 40 FOR MHX-NCA WHERE THE AVN SHOWS LITTLE SUPPORT FOR SIG PCPN. SHOULD BE ENOUGH BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS/INSTAB TO SEE SOME CONVECTION ALONG THE COAST. MID LVL FLOW AND UPPER SUPPORT WARRANT SLGT RISK PER LATEST SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK. THE SFC WAVE IS FCST TO MOVE OFFSHORE ERLY MON TAKING THE DEEPEST RH AND BEST LIFT WITH IT UP THE COAST. A DISSIPATING FRONTAL BNDRY WILL BE LOCATED OVR ESTRN NC DURING MAX HEATING. ALTHOUGH FORCING WILL BE WEAK...COOLING TEMPS AT 500 MB WILL PRODUCE GOOD INSATB ACROSS OUR AREA. DRY MID LEVELS WILL AID SVR DOWNDRAFT POTENTIAL WITH LIFT PERHAPS ENHANCED WITH INTERACTION WITH THE RESULTANT BREEZE. THINK OVERALL COVERAGE WILL BE LOW SO WILL LIMIT POPS TO 30% REGION WIDE. BROAD UPPER TROUGHING OVR THE ESTRN US WILL SHIFT E ON TUE PUTTING NC IN A NW FLOW. ANOTHER WEAK VORT WILL APPROACH THE AREA. AVN RH FIELDS APPROACH 70% AND DECENT WAA WILL OCCUR...PRODUCING ENOUGH LIFT TO BRING A THREAT (30%) OF SHRA/TSRA TO THE AREA. FAN/FWC TEMPS IN AGREEMENT AND ACCEPTED. CWF: THE AVN WAS THE STRONGEST WITH THE SFC WAVE TONIGHT-MON AND LOOKED OVERDONE COMPARED TO THE ETA/NGM WHICH HAD SIMILAR DYNAMICS. AFTER COORD WITH ILM...I WILL INCREASE WINDS TO JUST BELOW SCA LEVELS FOR THE SRN WATERS LATE TONIGHT AND MON. LATER SHIFTS MAY HAVE TO INCREASE TO 25 KT. .MHX...NONE. ELARDO
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 21, 4:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
425 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM BAYBORO NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 PAMLICO 911 CENTER REPORTED 1 INCH
HAIL.
0428 PM NEW BERN NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN SOTTER REPORTED 1 INCH
HAIL IN NEW BERN.
0430 PM NEW BERN NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN CRAVEN COUNTY 911 REPORTED
NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR
HIGHWAY 17.
0433 PM NEW BERN NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AT
417 PM 3 MILES SSW OF THE
AIRPORT. NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED AT 433 PM.
0433 PM FAIRFIELD NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER 8 MILESE SE OF NEW
BERN.
JMELocal storm report, May 21, 4:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
425 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM BAYBORO NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 PAMLICO 911 CENTER REPORTED 1 INCH
HAIL.
0428 PM NEW BERN NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN SOTTER REPORTED 1 INCH
HAIL IN NEW BERN.
0430 PM NEW BERN NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN CRAVEN COUNTY 911 REPORTED
NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR
HIGHWAY 17.
0433 PM NEW BERN NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AT
417 PM 3 MILES SSW OF THE
AIRPORT. NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED AT 433 PM.
0433 PM FAIRFIELD NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER 8 MILESE SE OF NEW
BERN.
JMELocal storm report, May 21, 5:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC...COR FUNNEL TIME
425 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM BAYBORO NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 PAMLICO 911 CENTER REPORTED 1 INCH
HAIL.
0428 PM NEW BERN NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN SOTTER REPORTED 1 INCH
HAIL IN NEW BERN.
0430 PM NEW BERN NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN CRAVEN COUNTY 911 REPORTED
NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR
HIGHWAY 17.
0433 PM NEW BERN NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AT
426 PM 3 MILES SSW OF THE
AIRPORT. NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED AT 433 PM.
0433 PM FAIRFIELD NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER 8 MILESE SE mOF NEW
BERN.
JMELocal storm report, May 21, 5:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
521 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM ALBERTSON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 DUPLIN
0514 PM NOBLES MILLS NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 LENOIR DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND ON HIGHWAY 258 S 2
TO 3 MILES FROM THE COUNTY
LINE.
0520 PM KINSTON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 LENOIR
0528 PM ORIENTAL NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 PAMLICO
JMELocal storm report, May 21, 6:05 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
605 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0548 PM WARSAW NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 DUPLIN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BETWEEN WARSAW AND
KENANSVILLE.
0549 PM FAISON NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 DUPLIN DIME SIZE HAIL COVERS
GROUND EAST OF FAISON.
0600 PM NEW BERN NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN
0600 PM WARSAW NC 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 DUPLIN SPOTTER REPORTED GOLFBALL
TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
BETWEEN WARSAW AND
KENANSVILLE.
0609 PM NEW BERN NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN 1 INCH HAIL SOUTH OF THE
AIRPORT.
0616 PM NEW BERN NC 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVEN
0614 PM NEW BERN NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00 CRAVENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Washington | 45 min |
| May 20, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 50 min |
| May 21, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 39 min |
| May 21, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 42 min |
| May 21, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 32 min |
| May 21, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 36 min |
| May 21, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 29 min |
| May 21, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 35 min |
| May 21, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 36 min |
| May 21, 6:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 29 min |
| May 21, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 51 min |
| May 21, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 45 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.