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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 755

September 25, 200021 counties in North Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 25, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT for 21 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 25, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2000, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

Warnings issued inside it

1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir30 min

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 601 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 00:00Z on 2000-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 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
601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
7.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender4 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.