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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 3, 2000Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 6:58 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
47 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, 11.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 126 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

731 
WUUS52 KMHX 032259
SVRMHX
NCC061-032345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
658 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 745 PM EDT

* AT 658 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA...MOVING EAST AT
  15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ROSE HILL AT 720 PM EDT.
   GREENEVERS AT 735 PM 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

LAT...LON 3514 7812 3478 7827 3466 7779 3505 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, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin50 min
Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.