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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 22, 2000Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2000, 10:16 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2000, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2000, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Craven County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 10:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Havelock, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 230216
SVRMHX
NCC049-230245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1016 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 1015 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAVELOCK...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   HAVELOCK AT 1025 PM EDT.
   
VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN NA 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, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 9:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 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, 3 hours 56 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, 3 hours 41 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, 3 hours 38 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, 2 hours 51 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, 2 hours 24 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, 1 hour 58 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.

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, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	35 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.