Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2001, 6:17 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 1, 2001, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 6:26 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Magnolia, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 012217 SVRMHX NCC061-012300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 617 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 617 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MAGNOLIA AT 620 PM EDT. KENANSVILLE AT 630 PM EDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3488 7828 3475 7813 3499 7779 3515 7798
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 Jun 1, 2:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
232 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001
SVR THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM. VIGOROUS H5
SHORTWAVE TO MOVE ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. DEEP
OMEGA...HI CAPES AND A JUICY ATMOSPHERE SHOULD KEEP TSTMS GOING INTO
THE NIGHT...WITH SVR WX PSBL THRU EARLY EVENING. FOLLOWING THE MAIN
SVR CONVECTIVE THREAT...COULD ALSO SEE SOME LOCALLY HVY RAIN INTO
THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. WILL CONTINUE LIKELY POPS FOR TONIGHT
THROUGHTOUT THE CWA. AS SHORTWAVE PASSES OFFSHORE TOWARD
MORNING...WINDS VEER TO A MORE LAND BASED SOUTHWEST/WEST FLOW WITH GOOD
SUBSIDENCE INDICATED ACROSS THE CWA SATURDAY. CONTINUED DRY SATURDAY
NIGHT. A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY PASSES THRU SUNDAY...BUT SHOULD PASS
THRU DRY WITH ONLY A WIND SHIFT TO THE NW RESULTING. WILL CONTINUE
TO USE THE BLEND OF FWC/MAV AND LCL ETA GUIDANCE WHICH HAS WORKED
WELL LATELY.
CWF: STILL BIG DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ETA AND AVN WITH RESPECT TO
SFC WINDS. AT THIS PT...AM LEANING TOWARD ETA WITH A SMALL
UPWARD ADJUSTMENT TO SPEEDS...THUS WILL ISSUE MARGINAL SCA FOR ALL
WTRS FOR TONIGHT. WINDS SHOULD DECREASE TO BELOW SCA CRITERIA SAT
MORNING AS PGRAD RELAXES IN RESPONSE TO SFC LOW MOVING WELL N OF US
AND WEAKING OVER NEW ENGLAND. COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH SECONDARY
SFC LOW OVER WRN GREAK LAKES WILL FINALLY PUSH OFF THE NC COAST
SUNDAY NIGHT.
.MHX...SVR TSTM WATCH ALL EXCEPT OUTER BANKS UNTIL 5 PM.
SCA ALL WATERS
PUBLIC/FIRE/AVIATION...COLLINS
MARINE...PETRONearby
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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.