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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 18, 2000Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2000, 8:12 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2000, 8:40 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Martin County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1073 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
1073 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 190014
SVRMHX
NCC117-190040-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
812 PM EDT SUN JUN 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MARTIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 840 PM EDT

* AT 812 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EVERETTS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   WILLIAMSTON AT 820 PM EDT.

HAIL...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 3583 7728 3571 7712 3594 7678 3610 7698

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, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 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.