Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 699
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 18, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Davidson, Gaston, Lincoln and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bladen, Chatham, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 14 more | 5 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.