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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 28, 2001Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 12:39 PM EDT for Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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 28, 2001, 12:39 PM EDT (16:39 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 12:47 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Ocracoke, NC
May 28, 1:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Rodanthe, NC
May 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Rodanthe, NC	National Park Service reported seeing a waterspout/tornado move across the Pamlico Sound and then across Pea Island near Rodanthe. The tornado moved over part of the national park , but did overturn one trailer.

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 28, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 281639
SVRMHX
NCC055-095-281730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
1239 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MAINLAND DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  OUTER BANKS HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MANNS HARBOR TO 17 MILES WEST OF
  OCRACOKE...OR FROM MANNS HARBOR TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CEDAR
  ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   LAKE WORTH AT 1245 PM EDT.
   STUMPY POINT AT 1250 PM EDT.
   OCRACOKE AT 1245 PM EDT.
   CAPE HATTERAS AT 1255 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.

$$

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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 28, 9:37 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 9:37 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
937 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

JUST ISSUED A SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK A FEW MINUTES AGO. YET ANOTHER
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL AFFECT THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. WILL HAVE TO UPDATE ZFP TO TAKE OUT MORNING SUNSHINE AND
MAY HAVE TO ADJUST TEMPS DOWN A CATEGORY DUE TO INCREASING CLOUD
COVER.

CWF: CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD BUT WILL MENTION WIND(S AND SEAS HIGHER
NEAR THUNDERSTORMS.

RIP CURRENT THREAT: INCREASING SW WINDS PRIMARY FACTOR FOR INCREASED
THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS FOR S FACING BEACHES TODAY.

.MHX....NONE.

WS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 9:25 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-290100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
925 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

...A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT..

ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS DISTURBANCE WILL BE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT
THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. THESE
CONDITIONS WILL CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AND SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.

THE AREA OF MOST CONCERN IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR RODANTHE ON THE
OUTER BANKS TO NEAR LAGRANGE IN LENOIR COUNTY. THE MAIN THREAT WITH
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER AND WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 58 MPH.

PEOPLE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR
FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING
THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.

MARINERS ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACHES.

SKYWARN SPOTTERS...
NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

WS

Local storm report, May 28, 11:50 AM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
1150 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1040 AM    FAISON AND CALYPSO        NC  POWER LINES DOWN
05/28/01     DUPLIN                        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 28, 10:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	33 min
May 28, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene, Lenoir	45 min
May 28, 11:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	28 min
May 28, 11:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Jones, Onslow	39 min
May 28, 11:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico	45 min
May 28, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	50 min
May 28, 12:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	46 min
May 28, 12:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde	37 min
May 28, 1:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Dare	48 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.