Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 18, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 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, 10.3 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
- 1610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
142 WUUS52 KMHX 182221 SVRMHX NCC061-182300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 620 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF MAGNOLIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KENANSVILLE AT 640 PM EDT. INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3486 7823 3473 7809 3502 7766 3518 7785
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 18, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 236 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2000 SFC LOW OVER SW PA AT 17Z WITH WARM FRONT EXTENDING E FROM LOW AND QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING SW FROM LOW. LOW WILL SHIFT E OVERNIGHT. WILL GO WITH CHC POPS TONIGHT AS MAIN FOCUS FOR WEATHER WILL BE TO OUR N BUT WEAK S/W MOVING INTO PIEDMONT OVERNIGHT MAY TRIGGER SOME SHRA/TSTMS. HIGH OVER GREAT LAKES REGION WILL BUILD S PUSHING FRONT INTO OUR CWA TOMORROW. FRONT IN CONJUCTION WITH S/W ENERGY WILL GIVE US OUR BEST CHANCE OF RAIN IN SOME TIME. WILL GO WITH 60% ACROSS COASTAL PLAIN AND N PART OF CWA AND 50% S PART. 30% POPS FOR OUTER BANKS TOMORROW EVENING AND 20% POPS FOR S PART OF CWA. WITH NE LOW LEVEL FLOW TUE...WILL GO PARTLY SUNNY ALONG THE COASTAL SECTIONS AS NGM FCST SOUNDING SHOWS THERE IS AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WITH AN INVERSION AROUND 800 MB. SPC HAS US UNDER A SLIGHT RISK AND THINKING HERE IS MAINLY PULSE TYPE TSTMS. GUIDANCE NUMBERS CLOSE AND ACCEPTED. EXTENDED...A CHC OF TSTMS TUE NIGHT THEN PARTLY CLOUDY WED AND THU AND A CHC OF TSTMS AGAIN FRI WITH APPROACHING COLD FRONT. TEMPS SEASONAL WITH LOWS 70-75 AND HIGHS 85-90. CWF...WILL RAISE SCA FOR N WATERS AS GRADIENT TIGHTENS AND WILL GO WITH 25 KT AND GUSTY. S WATERS AND SOUNDS SHOULD STAY BELOW SCA. DIRECTION WILL BE SW THROUGH MUCH OF DAY TOMORROW BECOMING W FOR SOUNDS AND N WATERS SHIFTING TO NE TOMORROW NIGHT INTO TUE. FOR S WATERS WILL GO 20 KT AND GUSTY TONIGHT BACKING OFF TO 15-20 TOMORROW. DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF FRONT WINDS WILL SHIFT TO NW TOMORROW NIGHT OVER S WATERS THEN TO THE NE TUE. .MHX...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR N OF CAPE HATTERAS. WS
Nearby
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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.