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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 25, 2000Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 4:42 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2000, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carteret County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 4:50 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	South River, 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 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 22 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: 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

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The text

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

367 
WUUS52 KMHX 252043
SVRMHX
NCC031-252130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
442 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF SOUTH RIVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   OPEN GROUNDS FARM AT 500 PM EDT.
   DAVIS AT 510 PM EDT.

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

NNNN

LAT...LON 3497 7690 3485 7675 3466 7627 3498 7659

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 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 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, 26 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

NMP

The 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, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	47 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.