Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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 4, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dare County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 041830 SVRMHX NCC055-041900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 230 PM EDT SUN JUN 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 229 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF SALVO...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SALVO AT 238 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. DEADLY LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3549 7567 3536 7552 3563 7516 3574 7534
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 4, 10:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 10:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1035 AM EDT SUN JUN 4 2000 LIKELY POP FCST ON TARGET WITH RADAR SCOPE'S AREAL COVERAGE OF SHRA ISOLD TSRA. WL NEED TO MONITER HIGHER VIL CELLS OFFSHORE IN AREA OF INCRD LWR TROP INSTAB. VIGOROUS S-WAVE OVHD MOVG NE WL EXIT NE NC COAST NR SUNSET. OMEGA FLDS KEEPS UVM OVER ERN NC THIS AFTN. SFC MCON COUPLED WITH LIS FM 1 TO -3 MAY MAINTAIN RAIN AND A FEW RUMBLES RIGHT ON INTO THE AFTN. HEFTIER CELLS ATTM OVR THE NRN ZNS APPR TO BE ASSOC WITH BEST PVA. THINKING IS TO LEAVE LIKELY POP FCST AS IS. MARINE: JUST ISSUED AN SMW FOR 55 KG/M2 VIL S OF OCRACOKE. WSPDS OUTSIDE OF TSTMS WELL BLO SCA. VESTIGES OCF BNDRY TO THE S WL LIFT N AND BRING WINDS TO SE THIS AFTN. BAGGINESS IN PRES FLD WL KEEP SPEEDS FROM GETTING ABV 25 KT SUSTAINED THROUGH OUT WATERS. .MHX...NONE. COLBY
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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.