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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, 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, 1:45 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 26, 2001, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 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 17:45 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 26, 2:02 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Rose Hill, 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 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, 5.8 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 261746
SVRMHX

NCC061-261830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
145 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 230 PM EDT

* AT 145 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSE HILL...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES WEST OF WALLACE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ROSE HILL AT 200 PM EDT.
   MAGNOLIA AT 205 PM EDT.
   KENANSVILLE AT 220 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE OR IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD MOVE TO A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER...INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS. 

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

$$

LAT...LON 3477 7827 3465 7811 3489 7778 3505 7797

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	25 min
May 26, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	23 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

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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.