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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 389

May 28, 200038 counties in North Carolina

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin40 min
May 28, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham35 min
May 28, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore25 min
May 28, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow50 min
May 28, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson21 min
May 28, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville27 min
May 28, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake26 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1366 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 2000-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlamance, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Durham and 15 more5 hr
May 27, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 32 more5 hr
May 28, 12:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 29 more6 hr
May 28, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 40 more6 hr

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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.