Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2000, 9:10 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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 22, 2000, 9:10 PM EDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
102 WUUS52 KMHX 230110 SVRMHX NCC061-230145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 910 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 909 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF ROSE HILL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ROSE HILL AT 915 PM EDT. CHARITY AT 925 PM EDT. CHINQUAPIN AT 935 PM EDT. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. 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 22, 9:10 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 9:10 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 910 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000 WILL ISSUE QUICK UPDATE FOR WATCH EXPIRATION. ONGOING ACTIVITY SHOULD BE OFFSHORE BY AROUND MIDNIGHT AND WILL WORD ZONES ACCORDINGLY. CLEARING WITH PATCHY FOG POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. CWF: WILL BEEF UP WINDS AS NEEDED. .MHX...NONE. JBM
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 22, 6:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC...COR FOR TIME
620 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0616 PM KINSTON NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 LENOIR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 1 MILE
NORTHEAST OF KINSTON.
JMELocal storm report, May 22, 6:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
635 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM KITTY HAWK NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 OUTER BANKS DARELocal storm report, May 22, 6:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
638 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM KITTY HAWK NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 OUTER BANKS DARE
0630 PM KILL DEVIL HILLS NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 OUTER BANKS DARE
JMELocal storm report, May 22, 7:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
725 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM FORT BARNWELL NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 CRAVEN
0720 PM NEW BERN NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 CRAVEN DIME SIZE HAIL IN GRACY
FARMS JUST NORTH OF NEW
BERN.
JMELocal storm report, May 22, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
752 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM PLYMOUTH NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 WASHINGTON PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL.
TIME APPROXIMATE.
JMELocal storm report, May 22, 8:18 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
818 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM ERNUL NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/22/00 CRAVEN
JMEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 33 min |
| May 22, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 45 min |
| May 22, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 43 min |
| May 22, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 28 min |
| May 22, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 37 min |
| May 22, 10:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.