Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2001, 4:44 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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 6, 2001, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carteret County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:40 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Sealevel, 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 062047 SVRMHX NCC031-062145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 444 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 444 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF SOUTH RIVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 8 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OPEN GROUNDS FARM AT 520 PM EDT. DAVIS AND STACY AT 540 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 3506 7639 3495 7666 3461 7655 3487 7628 10
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 6, 2:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 210 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001 PROBLEM OF THE DAY...POPS THROUGH THURSDAY. H5 VORT OVER E NC NOW SHOULD BE OFF THE COAST BY 00Z. A FEW SHOWERS HAVE POPPED UP ON OUR RADAR IN THE PAST HOUR. ETA AND AVN SHOW ANOTHER VORT MOVING ACROSS NC BETWEEN 06Z-12Z TONIGHT. SO AFTER THESE SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON DISSIPATE THERE COULD BE ANOTHER ROUND AFTER MIDNIGHT. THEN THE FOCUSING MECHANISM WILL BE THE FRONT AS WELL AS GOOD H85 THETA-E OVER US LATE TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT. FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER DELMARVA PENINSULA AT MIDDAY WILL GRADUALLY WORK BACK S TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH REGION THURSDAY NIGHT. BOUNDARY SHOULD BE S OF OUR CWA BY LATE THU NIGHT. PRESENTLY THE ETA OMEGA FIELD IS DOING THE BEST OF THE AVN/ETA/NGM. MODELS ARE NOT IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH NGM SHOWING A 1009 MB LOW OFFSHORE OF THE NC/SC BORDER AT 06Z TOMORROW NIGHT. NC OFFICES USE OAJ OBSERVATION CAUTIOUSLY AS THE TEMP APPEARS TOO HIGH AND DEW POINT APPEARS TOO LOW. EXTENDED...UPPER RIDGE JUST EAST OF THE ROCKIES FRI NIGHT WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT EAST THROUGH MONDAY THEN A BIT OF TROUGHINESS LATE MONDAY WHICH MOVES OFF THE COAST BY TUESDAY MORNING. SO BEST CHANCE OF ANY PCPN ACROSS OUR CWA LOOKS TO BE MONDAY. ON THE SFC WEAK AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY S OF OUR REGION FRI NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. CWF: SFC FRONT WILL MAKE ITS WAY S ACROSS THE CSTL WATERS THU. WINDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT TNT WILL REMAIN SW AT 15 TO 20 KT OFFSHORE. THE FRONT WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AND BY THU EVENING TH FRONT WILL BE NEAR A HATTERAS TO NEW BERN LINE. IT WILL SAG SOUTH OF CAPE LOOKOUT BY FRI AM. NUMEROUS SHRA AND TSTMS SOME OF WHICH COULD BECMG SVR CAN BE EXPECTED THU AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT. NELY WINDS ON FRI WILL BE BTWN 10 TO 15 KT AND BECMG SE BY LATE IN THE DAY. .MHX...NONE PUBLIC/FIRE...SHAFFER MARINE/AVIATION...ORROCK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 58 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.