Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 4:28 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 25, 2000, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dare County, NC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
445 WUUS52 KMHX 252028 SVRMHX TTAA00 KMHX 252027 NCC055-252115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 428 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 428 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HATTERAS VILLAGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HATTERAS VILLAGE AT 435 PM EDT. FRISCO AT 440 PM EDT. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING OCCUR IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3540 7577 3525 7586 3484 7511 3501 7500
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 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 115 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000 SRT TERM: WOULD EXPECT SCT CONVECTION TO DVLP ACRS RGN THIS LTR THIS AFTN AND EVENING. MSAS SHOWS GOOD AXIS OF INSTAB AND THETA-E ACRS ERN NC. EARLIER COMPLEX OF STORMS TO N HAS PUT DOWN A BNDRY TO W WITH SATL SHOWING GOOD CU DVPLMNT. SFC FRNT TO NW WL BE MOVING SE AIDING IN LOW LVL CNVRGNCE. BOTH ETA AND NGM SHOW AN ADDITIONAL SRT WV APPROACHING THIS EVENING THAT WL ENHANCE LIFT ACRS AREA AND PROB GET THINGS GOING. WL LIKELY GO WITH 40 TO 50 POPS FOR TSRA MAINLY THIS EVENING. FOR SRN CST WL NOT MENTION EVENING AS COULD LINGER PAST MIDNIGHT WITH FRONT. SHLD CLR BEHIND FRONT LTR TNGHT AND EARLY FRI WITH LOWERING MEAN RH AND BUILDING HGTS ALOFT. MCLR FRI NIGHT WITH BROAD UPR RDG ALOFT AND SFC HIGH ACRS RGN. FRNT WL STALL TO S AND LIFT BACK N ON SAT. MOISTURE INCREASES A BIT BUT DONT SEE MUCH UVM AND WL NOT INTRODUCE A POP. GDNCE TEMPS SIMILAR AND LOOK REASONABLE. EXTENDED COULD BE QUITE ACTIVE AS UPR LOW CUTS OFF TO W AND HEADS TWRD CST. CWF: WINDS SHFT OVERNIGHT TO N OR NE BEHIND FRONT. GRDNT NOT VRY TIGHT AND SPEEDS MAINLY 15 KT OR LESS. LIGHT WINDS FRI INTO EARLY SAT WITH HIGH BUILDING ACRS. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO INCRS LTR SAT AS DIGGING SRT WV LOWERS PRES ACRS OH VLY RGN. WINDS INCREASING SAT NIGHT INTO SUN AS LOW DVLPS/PASSES TO N. .MHX...NONE. FREDERICK
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 25, 4:16 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
416 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0317 PM NAGS HEAD NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/00 OUTER BANKS DARE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0355 PM TRENT WOODS NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/00 CRAVEN REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER/ HAM OPERATOR
0404 PM 3W NEW BERN NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/00 CRAVEN REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER
0405 PM NEW BERN NC 66 MPH GUST AT CRAVEN
05/25/00 CRAVEN REGIONAL AIRPORT
NMPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 28 min |
| May 25, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 31 min |
| May 25, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 49 min |
| May 25, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 44 min |
| May 25, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 48 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.