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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 27, 2000Tyrrell County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 11:48 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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, 11:48 PM EDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Tyrrell County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 28, 12:10 AM EDTHail 1.25Columbia, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1582 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.6

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The text

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

762 
WUUS52 KMHX 280347
SVRMHX
NCC177-280430-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1148 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 1146 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GUM NECK AT 1205 AM EDT.
  KILKENNY AT 1220 AM EDT.
 
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, 9:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
900 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000

NOT MUCH TIME FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS WITH ALL THE SVR WX THIS EVENING.
FIRST BATCH OF CONVECTION READY TO MOVE OFF THE OUTER BANKS. ANOTHER
AREA JUST N OF THE ALB SOUND. SPC HAS ISSUED A NEW WW JUST N OF OUR
CFWA FOR AN ACTIVE LINE OF CONVECTION RACING ACROSS VA AND BEARING
DOWN ON NRN NC. FROM THE LOOKS ON RADAR THESE COULD BE BIG WIND
PRODUCERS. THIS ACTIVITY WILL AFFECT OUR REGION AFT MIDNIGHT IF IT
HOLDS TOGETHER. AM WATCHING THIS CLOSELY AS 00Z SOUNDING WAS
UNSTABLE. BOTTOM LINE IS TO KEEP LIKELY POPS FOR THE NRN ZONES AND
WILL GO WITH SCT FOR SRN AREAS. BASED ON THE LATEST MODELS WE COULD
BE DOING THIS ALL AGAIN TOM. BUSY...BUSY.

CWF: MARGINAL SCA ON THE SRN WATERS ON TRACK WITH TOPS OF TOWERS NR
25 KTS. LGTR WINDS UP N WITH DIR BECOME NRLY AS FRONT ASSCTD WITH
NRN CONVECTION SAGS S.

.MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS S OF CAPE HAT.

ELARDO

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 8:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
819 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0656 PM    KENANSVILLE               NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   DUPLIN

0650 PM    HOOKERTON                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/00   GREENE                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
                                          HOOKERTON

0710 PM    BLACKJACK                 NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   PITT

0718 PM    1 S BLACKJACK             NC   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   PITT

0732 PM    CHOCOWINITY               NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   BEAUFORT

0733 PM    2 E CHOCOWINITY           NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   BEAUFORT

0737 PM    1 S WASHINGTON            NC   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   BEAUFORT

0705 PM    5 E KENANSVILLE           NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   DUPLIN

0735 PM    5 S GREENVILLE            NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/00   PITT                           LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          ROOF OFF BARN AND SEVERAL
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN

0740 PM    2 E WASHINGTON            NC   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   BEAUFORT

JME

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 11:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin42 min
May 28, 12:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare50 min
May 28, 12:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde30 min
May 28, 12:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde25 min
May 28, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin47 min
May 28, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir44 min
May 28, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene37 min
May 28, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven30 min
May 28, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones, Onslow43 min
May 28, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Pamlico38 min
May 28, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven45 min
May 28, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret42 min
May 28, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico15 min
May 28, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret30 min
May 28, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.