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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 26, 2001Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 2:53 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2001, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Jones County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 3:15 PM EDTHail 0.75Phillips Xrds, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 618 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 261854
SVRMHX
NCC103-261930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 253 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PLEASANT HILL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF
  TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   PHILLIPS CROSSROADS AT 300 PM EDT.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3508 7770 3496 7754 3512 7729 3520 7748@

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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, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:49 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin25 min
May 26, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene23 min
May 26, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin45 min
May 26, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir43 min
May 26, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt51 min
May 26, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXLenoir34 min
May 26, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow59 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.