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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 21, 2000Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2000, 8:21 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 21, 2000, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Duplin County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 563 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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

190 
WUUS52 KMHX 220023
SVRMHX
NCC061-220100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
821 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 821 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF ROSE HILL...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   WALLACE AT 830 PM EDT.
   TIN CITY AT 835 PM EDT. 
   CYPRESS CREEK AT 850 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.

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

NNNN

LAT...LON 3486 7822 3469 7825 3472 7770 3487 7768

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, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 45 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, 3 hours 56 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.

JME

Local storm report, May 21, 4:56 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 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.

JME

Local storm report, May 21, 5:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 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.

JME

Local storm report, May 21, 5:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 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

JME

Local storm report, May 21, 6:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 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   CRAVEN

Local storm report, May 21, 7:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
708 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0617 PM    JAMES CITY                NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/21/00   CRAVEN

0630 PM    CATHERINE LAKE            NC   TORNADO
05/21/00   ONSLOW                         SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO                SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO
                                          ON THE GROUND NEAR ELLIS
                                          AIRPORT.

0636 PM    POTTERS HILL              NC   2.50 INCH HAIL
05/21/00   JONES                          TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED IN EXTREME
                                          SOUTHWEST JONES COUNTY ON
                                          HIGHWAY 41 EAST OF POTTERS
                                          HILL.

0640 PM    RICHLANDS                 NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00   ONSLOW

0640 PM    HALF MOON                 NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00   ONSLOW

0640 PM    GUM BRANCH                NC   .88 INCH HAIL
05/21/00   ONSLOW

0640 PM    ORIENTAL                  NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/21/00   PAMLICO

JME

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	46 min
May 22, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	28 min
May 22, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	41 min
May 22, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	50 min
May 22, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.