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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 26, 2001Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 1:20 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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: May 26, 2001, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Duplin County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 261721
SVRMHX

NCC061-261745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
120 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BOWDENS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF
  WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   CALYPSO AT 125 PM EDT.
   BEAUTANCUS AT 130 PM EDT.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPOKRT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$

LAT...LON 3509 7826 3496 7810 3511 7781 3519 7806

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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 May 26, 9:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
949 AM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001

AS MID SHIFT SAID INGREDIENTS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO PRODUCE THE
POTENTIAL FOR SOME SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
MOST PCPN IS N AND W OF OUR CWA...HOWEVER...A CLUSTER OF TSTMS
OVER COASTAL SC AND ANOTHER CLUSTER NW OF FLO. THESE ARE MOVING NE
AND WILL HAVE TO WATCH THESE CLOSELY. LAPS CAPES ARE HIGHEST IN
VCNTY OF ILM AND ALONG NE NC/VA BORDER. LI FROM 12Z MHX SOUNDING IS
-7.7 WITH A WBZ OF 9110. THIS IN CONCERT WITH GOOD OMEGA WORKING
INTO OUR CWA, A STRONG VORT THAT IS EVIDENT ON SATELLITE WATER VAPOR
LOOP, AND ADDED INSTABILITY DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING INDICATE A DECENT
POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS.

AS FAR AS FCST GOES AM CONSIDERING RAISING POPS BASED ON SATELLITE
AND RADAR TRENDS AS WELL AS LAPS THETA-E ANALYSIS.

MARINE...FCST LOOKS OK AND WILL KEEP MENTION OF SOME STRONG TSTMS
GOING.

.MHX....NONE.

WS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	23 min
May 26, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	45 min
May 26, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	43 min
May 26, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	37 min
May 26, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	51 min
May 26, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	34 min
May 26, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Onslow	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.