Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Duplin County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
793 WUUS52 KMHX 032126 SVRMHX NCC061-032215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 525 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAUTANCUS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FAISON AT 530 PM EDT. BEAUTANCUS AT 535 PM EDT. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3517 7818 3476 7812 3476 7776 3506 7778
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 Jun 3, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 315 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 COLD FRONT HAS BACKDOORED DOWN COAST TODAY AND CURRENTLY BISECTING AREA FROM NW TO SE. FRONT IS PROGGED TO PUSH S OVERNIGHT..THEN RETURN N AS WARM FRONT LATE SUN THROUGH MON. WITH GENERALLY WEAK UPR FLOW...BELIEVE SLOWER MOVEMENT OF FEATURES IS PRUDENT AND WILL LEAN TO AVN SOLUTION. APPEARS MAY HAVE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY DEVELOP W OF AREA THIS EVE AND MOVE INTO AREA OVERNIGHT AND WILL GO WITH POPS 30-50 % RANGE. WEAK VORTS WILL MOVE ACROSS AREA REST OF PERIOD WITH SFC WAVE EXPECTED TO WORK NE ALONG WARM FRONT MON...AND WILL CARRY 40-50 % POPS ALL PERIODS. GOING WITH LOWER SIDE OF MOS FOR HIGHS. CWF: WILL CARRY SCA FOR CURRENT CONDITIONS BUT SHOULD DIMINISH THIS EVE. WINDS VEERING E TO S REST OF PERIOD WITH SPEEDS BELOW SCA...ALTHOUGH MAY APPROACH 25 KTS MON DEPENDING ON STRENGTH OF SFC WAVE. .MHX...SCA COASTAL WATERS N OF OCRACOKE INLET AND THE SOUNDS JBM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.