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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 28, 2000Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 12:50 AM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2000, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2000, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

728 
WUUS52 KMHX 280451
SVRMHX
NCC095-280515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1250 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OUTER BANKS HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 115 AM EDT

* AT 1250 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF OCRACOKE TO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF OUTER BANKS HYDE COUNTY...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   OCRACOKE AT 1255 AM EDT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO SEEK SHELTER. MOVE TO A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS
A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

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

NNNN

LAT...LON 3531 7586 3517 7605 3516 7638 3491 7586
          3492 7554 3509 7554

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, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 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, 4 hours 31 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 11:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Martin	42 min
May 27, 11:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	42 min
May 28, 12:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	50 min
May 28, 12:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde	30 min
May 28, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	47 min
May 28, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	44 min
May 28, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	37 min
May 28, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	30 min
May 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	43 min
May 28, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Pamlico	38 min
May 28, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	45 min
May 28, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	42 min
May 28, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	15 min
May 28, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	30 min
May 28, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.