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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 26, 2001Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 3:16 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 3:33 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Haw, 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 261917
SVRMHX

NCC133-262015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 316 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CATHERINE LAKE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF BEULAVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   RICHLANDS AT 330 PM EDT.

 OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE VERONA...PINEY GREEN...NEW
  RIVER AIR STATION...HOLLY RIDGE...HAWS RUN...HALF MOON...DIXON...
  DEPPE AND CAMP LEJEUNE.

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 3484 7778 3446 7755 3486 7723 3496 7754

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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, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:13 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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

...BIGGEST PROBLEM IS ON GOING CONVECTION AND WHEN WILL IT END...

VERY BUSY WITH WARNINGS SO THIS WILL BE PRETTY BRIEF.

STRONG VORT THAT HAS CAUSED THE SHRA/TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE
OFF THE COAST BY 06Z. UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO WOBBLE AROUND IN THE
GREAT LAKES REGION AND FINALLY BEGINS TO MOVE OUT TO THE E-NE
MONDAY. ONCE THIS PCPN ENDS TONIGHT THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND
SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT LOOK DRY. CHC POPS NECESSARY AGAIN MONDAY
AS FRONT APPROACHES AND THEN MOVES THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT OR EARLY
TUESDAY.

TEMPS...GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE CLOSE AND ACCEPTED.

EXTENDED...ANOTHER UPPER LOW DIGS S FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WHICH WILL
PROBABLY GIVE US SOME SHRA/TSTMS.

MARINE...NO FLAGS EXPECTED.

.MHX....NONE.

WS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 3:11 PM EDT, 5 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
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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, 2:17 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.