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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 28, 2000Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 15 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	South River, 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 28, 12:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 1366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

006 
WUUS52 KMHX 281929
SVRMHX
NCC137-281945-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 329 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ORIENTAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ORIENTAL AT 338 PM EDT.
   PAMLICO AT 340 PM EDT.

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

NNNN

LAT...LON 3506 7681 3490 7669 3512 7622 3533 7638

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 28, 10:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 10:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 3:10 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
310 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

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

0200 PM    FAISON                    NC   70-80 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/28/00   DUPLIN                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          WIND GUSTS IN FAISON OF 70
                                          TO 80 MPH

0202 PM    CALYPSO                   NC   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/28/00   DUPLIN                         TRAINED SPOTTER
REPORTED                                  60 MPH WIND GUSTS

0216 PM    LAGRANGE                  NC   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/28/00   LENOIR                         CRAVEN COUNTY EMC REPORTED
                                          60 MPH WIND GUST

0220 PM    KENANSVILLE               NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/00   DUPLIN                         LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN IN THE VICINITY
                                          OF KENANSVILLE. TIME
                                          APPROXIMATE

0235 PM    NEW BERN                  NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/00   CRAVEN

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, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde	25 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, 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

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

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.