Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 389
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 28, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT for 38 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Alamance County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Wake County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 40 min |
| May 28, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 35 min |
| May 28, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 25 min |
| May 28, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 50 min |
| May 28, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 21 min |
| May 28, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 min |
| May 28, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Durham and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 40 more | 6 hr |
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.