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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 16, 2000Beaufort County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 4:44 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
Jul 16, 2000, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Beaufort County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 16, 4:53 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 65 EBlounts Creek Statio, NCNumerous trees blown down along highway 33. One tree fell across a home causing significant roof damage.
Jul 16, 4:53 PM EDTHail 1Ransomville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 725 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 162045
SVRMHX
NCC013-162115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEAUFORT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 444 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RIVER ROAD...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASHINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   TERRA CEIA AT 500 PM EDT.

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU 
ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO 
A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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

NNNN
06

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 Jul 16, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:51 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
351 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOC@ATION....

0347 PM    4 W NEW BERN              NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   CRAVEN
Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:01 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
401 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0347 PM    4 W NEW BERN              NC     1.00 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   CRAVEN                           REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0353 PM    NEW BERN                  NC     0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   CRAVEN                           REPORTED BY SPOTTER

WS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven, Jones33 min
Jul 16, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven36 min
Jul 16, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin41 min
Jul 16, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir21 min
Jul 16, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington35 min
Jul 16, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones, Lenoir45 min
Jul 16, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven36 min
Jul 16, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt31 min
Jul 16, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin, Pitt33 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.