Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2001, 9:09 PM EST for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2001, 9:09 PM EST (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2001, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 36 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 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 010210 SVRMHX NCC013-010245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 909 PM EST SAT MAR 31 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 945 PM EST * AT 909 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF TERRA CEIA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF WASHINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TERRA CEIA AT 920 PM EST. PUNGO AT 935 PM EST. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WI,TH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$
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 Mar 31, 2:48 PM EST, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 2:48 PM EST, 6 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 248 PM EST SAT MAR 31 2001 MODELS VERY CLOSE TODAY AND WILL GO WITH ETA/AVN BLEND. FRONTAL BOUNDARY HAS REMAINED NEARLY STNRY N OF HAT-PGV LINE THIS AFTN. MODELS INDICATE SHRT WV MOVING ACROSS AREA TONIGHT WITH SFC WAVE MOVING E ALONG FRONT...AND FRONT SAGGING TO S NEAR EWN OVERNIGHT AS WAVE MOVES OFFSHORE. AS STRONG SHRT WV DIVES IN FROM NW SUNDAY...YET ANOTHER SFC LOW DEVELOPS ON FRONT TO NW AND MOVES E IN AFTN...CAUSING FRONT TO LIFT N. IF SRN AREAS GET MUCH INSOLATION... COULD SEE STRONG TSTMS DURING AFTN WITH ETA INDICATING CAPES NEAR 1700 AND LI -3. LINGERING CHC OF SHOWERS SUN EVE...THEN DRYING CONDITIONS INTO MON. WAS LEANING TOWARD HIGHER AVN MOS POPS FOR TONIGHT INITIALLY BUT WITH ONLY SCT ACTVTY CURRENTLY WILL PROBABLY LOWER TO CHC. LIKELY POPS FOR SUN...THEN CHC SUN EVE EXCEPT LIKELY OUTER BANKS. MOS TEMPS GENERALLY ACCEPTED EXCEPT WILL GO ABOVE FOR HIGHS SUNDAY. MARINE: LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE OFF THE COAST TONIGHT. SEAS ARE SLOW TO FALL AT FPSN7 AND AT 17Z THEY WERE STILL 6 FEET. EARLIER THEY WERE 5 FEET SO TEETERING BETWEEN 5 AND 6 FEET. GRADIENT IS GOING TO PRODUCE WIND BELOW SCA UNTIL LATE TOMORROW AFTERNOON WHEN STRONG VORT TRAVERSING SE FROM THE MIDWEST TOMORROW GETS NEAR US. EXPECT THIS TO TIGHTEN GRADIENT UP AND KICK OUT SFC LOW TO THE NE. AM LEANING TOWARD DROPPING SCSEC FOR S WATERS BUT WILL MAKE THAT DECISION CLOSER TO PRESS TIME. WILL HEADLINE SCA SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR COASTAL WATERS S OF HATTERAS. N WATERS WILL PROBABLY NEED SCA TOMORROW NIGHT AND WILL HEADLINE SCA POSSIBLE THERE. .MHX...NONE. PUBLIC/FIRE...JBM MARINE/AVN...WS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 33 min |
| Apr 1, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 53 min |
| Apr 1, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 50 min |
| Apr 1, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 45 min |
| Apr 1, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 23 min |
| Apr 1, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.