Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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 27, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pitt County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:10 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Black Jack, NC | |
| May 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville, NC | A roof was blown off a house just south of Greenville. |
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 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
550 WUUS52 KMHX 272252 SVRMHX NCC147-272330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 650 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PITT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRIFTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AYDEN AT 655 PM EDT. LITTLEFIELD AT 655 PM EDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 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 27, 1:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 140 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 ACTIVE WX EXPECTED ACRS RGN THRU MEMORIAL DAY. MAIN FOCUS WL BE E/W FRNTL BNDRY CRNTLY TO N AND AN APPROACHING STRG UPR TRF. ETA/NGM FAIRLY SIMILAR AND MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN AVN AND WL LIKELY FOLLOW THEM. APPEARS ERN NC WILL SEE TWO MAIN BATCHES OF CNVCTN. FIRST WL BE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. EXPECT CONVECTION TO NW ACRS MTNS TO REDVLP ACRS VA LTR THIS AFTN AS ATMS CONTS TO DESTABILIZE. DECENT VORT ALSO EXPECT TO ENHANCE LIFT ACRS THIS RGN. THIS CONVECTION SHLD THEN MOVE ESE ALONG UPR THICKNESS LINES AND CROSS MAINLY NRN SECTIONS. CERTAINLY WL HAVE TO WATCH FOR SEVERE AS VERY UNSTABLE AIR IS DEVELOPING ACRS SRN NC AND S CAROLINA AND THIS AIRMASS WL CONT TO LIFT N...S OF THE FRNT. PLAN ON GOING WITH LIKELY POPS FAR N TO CHC S. THIS BATCH OF CONVECTION SHLD MOVE OFFSHR LTR TONIGHT. SFC WAVE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ACTVTY WL LIKELY DRAG FRNTL BNDRY S INTO NRN OR CNTRL SECTION OVERNIGHT. STRG UPR TRF WL BEGIN TO SPREAD GOOD UVM ACRS RGN DURING SUNDAY. WITH NICE THERMAL BNDRY LYING ACRS RGN EXPECT STRG TO SEVERE THUNDER TO DEVELOP DURING AFTN. IF WE GET ENUF HEATING WORRIED COULD SEE SOME DECENT SUPERCELLS AS SFC WAVE DEVELOPS ALONG FRNT AND INCREASES HELICITY. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS AND CONT TO WORD MAINLY AFTN OR LATE. AS UPR TRF AND COLD POOL CROSS RGN SUN NIGHT INTO MON WL CONT TO SEE THREAT OF SHRA POSS TSRA. TEMPS VERY MILD TONIGHT S OF WRM FRNT. HIGHS SUNDAY VERY TRICKY. WL GO 85 TO 90 S IN WARM SECTOR WITH 75 TO 80 FAR N. ALL AREAS WL BE COOLER MON AS SFC LOW MVS E AND NRLY WINDS DVLP OVER AREA. CWF: TUFF FCST AS MDLS SHOW DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS. LOOKS LIKE NRN WTRS AND ALBEMARLE SOUND WL SEE THE LIGHTEST WINDS THRU SUN WITH FRNTL POSITION CLOSE. S OF HAT AM LEANING TWRD POSTING SCA TNGHT AS SFC WAVE WL INCRS SW WINDS. WL SEE A BIT OF A LULL EARLY SUN BUT AS SECOND LOW DVLPS INLAND SUN AFTN DECENT SW WINDS LIKELY AGAIN S OF HAT. FOR NOW WL BE A LITTLE MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN AVN AND MOVE SFC LOW FRTHR OFFSHR SUN NIGHT AND MON...THIS MAY INCRS WINDS TO SCA LVLS NRN WTRS MON. .MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS S OF CAPE HAT. FREDERICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 41 min |
| May 27, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 49 min |
| May 27, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 41 min |
| May 27, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 34 min |
| May 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 45 min |
| May 27, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 50 min |
| May 27, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 39 min |
| May 27, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 39 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.