Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 5:42 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- Jul 5, 2001, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Morehead City, NC | Numerous trees were blown down across Morehead City as 60 mph blew across the entire area. |
| Jul 5, 6:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 M | Harkers Is, NC | Wind was measured by the Harkers Island draw bridge personnel. |
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, 9.7 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 052145 SVRMHX NCC031-052230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 542 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 542 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SALTER PATH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF ATLANTIC BEACH...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ATLANTIC BEACH...AND...MOREHEAD CITY AT 555 PM EDT. BEAUFORT AT 605 PM EDT. HARKERS ISLAND AT 615 PM EDT. CAPE LOOKOUT AT 620 PM EDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. EXCESSIVE DEADLY LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS SEVERE WEATHER. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3479 7692 3462 7697 3447 7639 3471 7632 5/17
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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.