Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Issued

Jul 16, 2000, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)

Expired

Jul 16, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT

In force

33 min

Issued by

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS52 KMHX 161927
SVRMHX
NCC049-103-162000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
327 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  EASTERN JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 327 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   RIVER BEND AT 335 PM EDT.
   TUSCARORA AT 340 PM EDT.
   JASPER AT 350 PM EDT.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

NNNN

LAT...LON 3507 7742 3494 7726 3518 7692 3534 7712
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NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
150 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

CONVECTION HAS BEEN HELD TO A MINIMUM THUS FAR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS
THE CWA. ONE REASON IS THAT DEWPOINTS HAVE DROPPED...ESPECIALLY
OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS...WHERE MOST DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE 60S. WATER
VAPOR LOOP SHOWS THAT THE BULK OF THE MID-LEVEL SHORTWAVE ENERGY HAS
ALSO MOVED N INTO VA AND THAT HAS PROMPTED A FEW WARNINGS OUT OF
AKQ...BUT HAS KEPT OUR AREA QUIET. THE MHX CWA IS NOT OUT OF THE
WOODS YET...HOWEVER. ETA/AVN SHOW ANOTHER H5 SHORTWAVE DROPPING DOWN
OVERNIGHT AND WITH MSAS ANALYSIS SHOWING PLENTIFUL INSTABILITY (LI'S
OF -8)...WILL CONTINUE A CHC POP THROUGHOUT THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
AGREE WITH SPC THAT BEST SVR THREAT WITH PROBABLY BE N OF OUR
CWA...BUT AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SVR STORM OR TWO IS NOT OUT OF THE
QUESTION THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN
DRYING OUT THE ATMOSPHERE MONDAY THRU TUESDAY WITH STRONG
DIFFERENTIAL NVA. TEMPS WILL STILL BE QUITE WARM...BUT THE DEWPOINTS
MONDAY AFTERNOON WILL DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 60S. ANOTHER AREA OF
MID-LEVEL SHORTWAVE ENERGY WILL START TO APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE
NW TUESDAY NIGHT. ETA MUCH MORE VIGOROUS WITH THE H7-H5 OMEGA THAN
IS THE ETA. NOT REAL CONFIDENT ON THE MODEL SOLUTIONS...BUT WILL
INTRODUCE A CHC OF TSTMS FOR THE 5TH PERIOD FCST.

MARINE FCST...WINDS/SEAS WILL BE JUST ABOUT AS LIGHT AS IT GETS
AROUND HERE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. NO ADVISORIES NEEDED WITH
LIGHT WINDS AT NIGHT AND S/SW WINDS 15 KT OR LESS DURING THE DAYTIME
HOURS.

.MHX...NONE.

COLLINS

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.