Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2000, 6:05 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2000, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 6:35 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Faison, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 082205 SVRMHX NCC061-082245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 605 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NORTHWESTERN SAMPSON COUNTY TO CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... FAISON AT 620 PM EDT. WARSAW AT 620 PM EDT. KENANSVILLE AT 630 PM EDT. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINMA. CTC
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 Apr 8, 2:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
238 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000
FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT...WILL MONITOR LINE OF DEVELOPING
STORMS FROM NEAR CLT TO CAE. COLD FRONT IS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS AND
EXTENDS FROM NEAR INT TO AGS AT 18Z. MSAS FIELDS SHOWING LIMITED
INSTABILITY...BUT AS PER SPC CONFERENCE CALL...UPPER WIND FIELDS ARE
THE BIG CONCERN WITH PSBL LEWP/BOWS. AS LINE OF STORMS MOVES ACROSS
THE CWA...SOME STRONG WINDS COULD MIX DOWN. WILL CONTINUE WITH
LIKELY POPS WITH ACTIVITY QUICKLY MOVING OFFSHORE AROUND MIDNIGHT.
ETA INDICATES QUICK CLEARING BEHIND FRONT. WILL GO WITH HIGHER
NGM/AVN MOS READINGS WITH GOOD MIXING TONIGHT WITH MINS MAINLY IN
THE 45 TO 50 DEGREE RANGE. SUNDAY...PLENTY OF SUNSHINE AND MUCH
COOLER AS H8 TEMPS DROP BLO 0 DURING THE AFTERNOON. DOWNSLOPE EFFECT
WILL COUNTERACT THE CAA SOMEWHAT...BUT STILL MAXES CLOSE TO 60 WITH
A BRISK NW WIND. SUN NIGHT...WILL LEAN TOWARD THE COLDER LOCAL ETA
MOS WITH READINGS INTO THE MID AND UPPER 30S OVER THE MAINLAND.
MON...STILL DRY BUT WITH QUICKLY MODERATING TEMPS AS WINDS GO SW.
HIGHS INTO THE 70S.
MARINE FCST...WINDS HAVE STARTED SHOWING AN INCREASING TREND ALONG
THE COAST DURING THE PAST OR SO. IN FACT...LAST REPORT FROM
ALLIGATOR BRIDGE HAD SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 KT WITH GUSTS TO 48 KT.
THIS INCREASING TREND SHOULD CONTINUE WITH AT LEAST MARGINAL GALES
ON THE WATERS AND SOUNDS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. CONTINUE GALE
WARNING. WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE SOME LATE SUNDAY WITH REALLY DIE OFF
SUN NIGHT INTO MON AS HIGH SETTLES OVERHEAD.
.MHX...GALE WARNING CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT TO SURF CITY...INCLUDING
ALBEMARLE AND PAMLICO SOUNDS.
COLLINSNearby
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.