Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2001, 1:20 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 6, 2001, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2001, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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 6, 1:31 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Camp Lejeune, 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1763 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 061721 SVRMHX NCC133-061815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 120 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CAMP LEJEUNE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HAMMOCKS BEACH AT 130 PM EDT SWANSBORO AT 135 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PINEY GREEN AND HUBERT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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 NAT"IONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3480 7732 3465 7744 3446 7713 3465 7699 14/17
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 Jul 6, 10:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 10:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1050 AM EDT FRI JUL 6 2001 FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING FASTER THAN EXPECTED WITH NRLY WIND SHIFT OVER ENTIRE MHX MAINLAND CWA AT 14Z. LATEST RUC40 AND INCOMING MESOETA CONCUR WITH FRONT S OF AREA BY 00Z. AIR MASS BOUNDARY WITH HIGHER DEW POINTS WILL LIKELY LAG OVER SRN SECTIONS INTO AFTN AND PROVIDE FOCUS FOR SCT TSTMS WITH STRONG SHRT WV MOVING THRU FROM NW...AND ISOLD SVR STILL POSSIBLE. WILL KEEP 40% POPS FOR SRN ZONES BUT DROP POPS N. TEMP FCST OK EXCEPT WILL DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN N AND S ON OUTER BANKS WITH NRN SECTIONS COOLER DUE TO N-NE WIND. CWF: WITH FASTER FRONTAL MOVEMENT EXPECTED...WILL HAVE TO ADJUST WIND FCST ACCORDINGLY...MAINLY FOR SRN WATERS. LATEST OBS INDICATE SEAS BELOW 5 FEET SO WILL DROP SCEC WORDING FOR NRN WATERS. S FACING BEACHES STILL SEEING EFFECTS FROM SVRL DAYS OF SW FLOW AND WILL CONTINUE INCREASED THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS. .MHX...NONE JBM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-061630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1205 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT HAS DIMINISHED... THE COLD FRONT THAT WAS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A THREAT OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAD PUSHED SOUTH OF THE AREA BY NOON. NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BRING MORE STABLE CONDITIONS TO MUCH OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND THUS THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A KINSTON...NEW BERN...BAYBORO LINE BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. JBM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.