Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 3:11 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 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 19:12 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, 7.2 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 261911 SVRMHX NCC107-261945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 311 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 345 PM EDT * AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GRANGERS AT 320 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 3523 7764 3510 7749 3523 7740 3541 7751 12
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 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:49 AM EDT, 5 hours 22 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 3:11 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
311 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0202 PM ROSE HILL NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 DUPLIN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT DIME SIZE
HAIL IN ROSE HILL
0225 PM WILLIAMSTON NC .88 INCH HAIL REPORTED
05/26/01 LENOIR BY LAW FORCEMENT IN
LAGRANGE
0250 PM GREENVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 PITT REPORTED IN GREENVILLE
BY SPOTTERS
0250 PM JONESTOWN, DEEP RUN NC 60 MPH WIND
05/26/01 LENOIR REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0300 PM DEEP RUN NC TREES DOWN
05/26/01 LENOIR REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTThe 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, 2:17 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, 3:16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.