Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 2:17 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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, 2:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | La Grange, NC | |
| May 26, 3:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Deep Run, 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 261818 SVRMHX NCC107-261900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 217 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 217 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LA GRANGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DAWSON AT 240 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MOSS HILL AND GRANGERS. 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN S6EVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ 6
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, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 28 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, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 25 min |
| May 26, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 23 min |
| May 26, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 45 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.