Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

May 28, 2000, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)

Expired

May 28, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties

Counties Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS52 KMHX 281833
SVRMHX
NCC103-133-281915-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 231 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SOUTH CENTRAL
  GREENE COUNTY TO SOUTH CENTRAL DUPLIN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   CATHERINE LAKE AT 240 PM EDT.
   WISE FORKS AT 240 PM EDT.

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

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.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

NNNN

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 10:36 AM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1036 AM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

THIS AFT...DO NOT LIKE THE LOOKS OF THINGS THIS AFT. WE HAV A FNTL
BNDRY DRAPED ACRS THE CNTRL CST RITE NOW. STRNG HEATING WILL DVLP S
OF THIS BNDRY WITH A GD THERMAL CONTRAST AND MOIST CONVRG ALNG THIS
ENTITY. UPP LOW WILL BE DIVING THRU OHIO VLY THIS AFT/EVE AND THIS
SHLD PUT STRNG UVM FIELDS OVR ERN NC. NEW ETA IS FCSTNG A WAVE OF LOW
PRES TO DVLP ALNG THE WK BNDRY AND PROGRESS EWD ACRS MHX CWA LATE
THIS AFT AND TNT. TAKING A LUK AT MORN SNDGS AND MODIFYING THEM TO
ACCOUNT FOR COOLING ALFT YIELDS AN UNSTABLE ATMOS ACRS THE CNTRL AND
S WITH CAPES FRM 2000 TO 3500J/KG DEPENDING OF HOW HIGH TEMPS GET.
NOT QUITE AS MUCH CAPE WAY UP N AS SFC TEMPS WILL BE COOLER DUE TO
LOW CLDS ON THE N SIDE OF THE BNDRY. TSTMS THAT DO DVLP WILL BE ABLE
TO DRAW ON LOW LVL HELICITY ASSOCIATED WITH BNDRY AND NEED TO BE
WATCHED VRY CLOSELY THIS AFT/EVE FOR PSBL TOR THREAT. AGREE STRNGLY
WITH SLGT RISK FRM SPC. WILL HAV TO PLAY WITH TEMPS IN THE ZONES AS
THEY WILL BE A NIGHTMARE FRM N TO S. PROB MID/UPP 80S CNTRL S AND
COOLER 70S AND LOW 80S UP N.

CWF...VRY DIFFICULT FCST AS FAR AS CURRENT SCA FOR SRN WTRS. AT THIS
PT WILL KP SCA UP AS DVLPNG WAV WILL PROB INCR GRAD OVR THAT REG
THIS AFT/EVE. WL PLAY WITH DIRECTIONS AND WTRS WILL REMAIN SPLIT
WITH FNT ARND.

.MHX...SCA S OF HAT TO N OF SURF CITY.
GATES

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.