Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2001, 6:42 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2001, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 22:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:48 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Washington Park, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 122243 SVRMHX NCC013-122330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 642 PM EDT SAT MAY 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEAUFORT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 642 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CHOCOWINITY...OR ABOUT OVER WASHINGTON... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BATH AT 705 PM EDT. BAYVIEW AT 710 PM EDT. RANSOMVILLE AT 715 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE YEATESVILLE...TERRA CEIA... RIVER ROAD...PUNGO...PINETOWN AND OLD FORD. HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAqREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3568 7709 3543 7717 3527 7668 3567 7662 6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 31 min |
| May 12, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 45 min |
| May 12, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 41 min |
| May 12, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 47 min |
| May 12, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 41 min |
| May 12, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 50 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.