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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 22, 2000Duplin County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2275 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 2000-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 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
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

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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.

JME
Local 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 DARE
Local 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

JME
Local 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.

JME
Local 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.

JME
Local 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

JME

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven33 min
May 22, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven45 min
May 22, 9:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico43 min
May 22, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven28 min
May 22, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico37 min
May 22, 10:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven29 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.