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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 6, 2001Carteret County, North Carolina

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 5:40 PM EDTHail 1Sealevel, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 665 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2001Every 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.