Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 5:08 PM EDT for Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 22, 2000, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Creswell, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
856 WUUS52 KMHX 222109 SVRMHX NCC187-222200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 508 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF PLYMOUTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ROPER AT 525 PM EDT. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN
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 22, 2:08 PM EDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:08 PM EDT, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 208 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 ...TSTM WATCH BOX LIKELY TIL 00Z FOR MHX CWA AFTER COORD WITH SPC... CONVECTION NOW FIRING E OF RAH ALG LEADING CLD EDGE IN AREA OF HIGH CAPES. TNGT LOW AMPLITUDE UPR TROF APPROACHES BUT RMNS JUST W OF THE RGN. SFC TROF/WSHFT APT TO CROSS ERN NC OVRNGHT BRINGING WNDS SW TO W TO NW INTO DAYBREAK. CYCLONIC FLOW TNGT COUPLED WITH DEEP MSTR UPR DIFFLUENCE AND UVM WL KEEP SCT POPS OVRNGHT WITH MENTION OF SVR ERLY. LACK OF SUN WL HOPEFULLY REMOVE PUNCH OF CELLS CURRENTLY BLOOMING. CONSENSUS SEEN IN MODELS FRI TAKING UPR TROF AXIS OFFSHORE AND LIFT WITH IT. RH TIME SECTIONS SHOW MAJOR DRYING AFTER 12Z FRI AND GNRL W-NW DWNSLP BNDRY LYR FLOW. SAT DRY REGIME CONT AS CLOUDS ASSOC WITH FRNTL BNDRY STAY WELL S AND E OF HERE. SUN BRINGS NOTEWORTHY S-WAVE INTO THE CNTRL MS VLY LIKELY BRINGING RETURN FLOW ACRS THE MID-ATLNTC ALLOWING BNDRY TO THE S TO CREEP NWD. SO SHRA TSTMS BACK IN FCST SUN AS MSTR BEGINS TO REPLENISH COLUMN. MARINE: SW 20 KT AND GUSTY TNGT BECOMING W TO NW NRN WATERS AND DIMINISHING. SRN WATERS MAINTAIN SW TO S FLOW BUT DIMINISH AS WELL. MAY HIGHLIGHT GUSTY WIND NR TSTMS TO ACCOUNT FOR THOSE CONVECTIVE GUSTS ABV SMALL CRAFT RANGE. .MHX...NONE. COLBY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 36 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.