Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 6:56 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 27, 2000, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin 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 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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.
- 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.
005 WUUS52 KMHX 272258 SVRMHX NCC061-272330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 656 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 656 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KENANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DIME SIZE WAS REPORTED IN KENANSVILLE AT 655 PM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BEULAVILLE AT 715 PM EDT. POTTERS HILL AT 720 PM EDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 16 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, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.