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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 27, 2000Beaufort County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 27, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Beaufort County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 7:33 PM EDT	Hail 2	Chocowinity, 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 27, 4:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 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

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The text

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

298 
WUUS52 KMHX 272315
SVRMHX
NCC013-280000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
715 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 712 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILMAR...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   CHOCOWINITY AT 725 PM EDT.
   RIVER ROAD AT 730 PM EDT.
   YEATESVILLE AT 750 PM EDT.
   BELHAVEN AT 800 PM EDT.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

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 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 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, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	34 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.