Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2001, 4:53 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2001, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
933 WUUS52 KMHX 132053 SVRMHX NCC049-132130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 453 PM EDT MON AUG 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 453 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM VANCEBORO TO TUSCARORA...OR FROM 13 MILES NORTH OF NEW BERN TO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RIVER BEND AT 500 PM EDT. ERNUL AT 505 PM EDT. NEW BERN...AND...TRENT WOODS AT 510 PM EDT. CAYTON AT 515 PM EDT. BRIDGETON...AND...JAMES CITY AT 520 PM EDT. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. 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. $$ 14
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 Aug 13, 2:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 248 PM EDT MON AUG 13 2001 CURRENTLY...SHRTWV ENERGY WE MENTIONED THIS MORN THAT WAS ALNG THE MTNS IS MOVG E. THIS FEATURE IS COMBINING WITH HEAT AND HIGH DWPTS AND SHWRS/TSTMS ARE NUMEROUS OVR RDUS AREA. THIS ACTION SHLD QUICKLY SPREAD INTO THE CSTL PLN AND NRN CSTL REG DURING THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFT/EVE. THERE WILL ALSO BE SOME CELLS ON THE C-BRZ FNT ALNG THE CNTRL AND S CST. TNT...LUKS LIKE MORE SHWRS/TSTMS FOR ERN NC. MORE SHRTWV ENERGY ALFT IS DIVING SEWD FRM MIDWEST AS WE SPEAK. THIS ENERGY WILL BRING MORE UVM TO ERN NC LTR TNT AND ENHANCE/REDEVELOP SHWRS/TSTMS. THERE IS DECENT POTENTIAL FOR HVY DOWNPOURS AS WE GET 25 KT OF FORCING AT 85H ALNG WITH HIGH THETA-E VALUES...PWS ALSO ABV 2.00...WILL CONT THE MENTION OF HVY DOWNPOURS IN THE ZONES. AS FAR AS POPS GO...WILL BASICALLY GO CATEGORICAL FOR ALL THE REG. IT MAY TAKE A WHILE FOR ACTION TO GET TO IMMEDIATE CST AS THEY ARE BEHIND THE C-BRZ RIGHT NOW AND FAIRLY STABLE...HOWEVER IT WILL GET THERE LOW TEMPS NORMALLY WOULD BE MID/UPP 70S AHEAD OF THE FNT...WILL TWEAK VALUES A LITTLE LOWER TO COMPENSATE FOR EVERYBODY GETTING SOME HVY DOWNPOURS AND RAIN COOLING THINGS A BIT. SO ALL IN ALL...SHWRS/TSTMS WITH SOME HVY RAIN. TUE...WK COLD FNT WILL BE EASING THRU ERN NC AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. BEST CHC FOR SHWRS/TSTMS WILL BE CLOSER TO THE CST AS THE UPP LVL TROF AXIS WILL NOT CLR THE CST UNTIL LTR IN THE AFT. WILL HAVE A GRADIENT OF POPS FROM W TO E. HIGH TEMPS ARE TRICKY BEC OF CLDCVR. WILL TEND TO CALL ERN AREAS M/CLDY AND ALLOW FOR SOME SUNSHINE OUT W IN THE AFT. GENERALLY TEMPS MID 80S. TUE NGT... THINGS DRYING OUT AND WILL GO P/C. LOW TEMPS MORE COMFORTABLE WITH 67-72. WED...DRIER AIRMASS IN PLACE...SUNSHINE AND PUFFY CU WITH TEMPS IN THE MID 80S OR SO. CWF: WINDS REMAIN ONLY AROUND 15 KT THIS AFTERNOON. WILL SEE A BRIEF INCREASE TONIGHT FOR NRN WATERS. FOR TONIGHT WILL GO 15 TO 20 KT DIMINISHING TO 15 KT AS FRONT NEARS FOR NRN WATERS...AND JUST 15 KT OR LESS ELSEWHERE. FRONT WILL MOVE OFFSHORE ON TUE. PLAN ON TRENDING TOWARDS THE ETA SOLN. WILL NOT BUY OFF ON STRONG AVN WINDS TUE NIGHT RESULTING FROM THE STRONG LOW IT DEVELOPS OFF HATTERAS. WILL ONLY GO WITH 15 KT TUE NIGHT. THEN WINDS BECOME LIGHT NE ON WED. .MHX...NONE PUBLIC/FIRE...GATES MARINE/AVIATION...BANDY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:05 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
NCZ029-044-045-079-080-090>095-098-132200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 405 PM EDT MON AUG 13 2001 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE MOVING ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAIN. THIS SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MARTIN...PITT...LENOIR... JONES...BEAUFORT...CRAVEN AND ONSLOW COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. RAINFALL WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO...MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING THESE STORMS. BOATERS IN THE NEUSE RIVER AND PAMLICO SOUND SHOULD MONITOR THESE STORMS AND HEAD FOR PORT AS THE STORMS APPROACH. JO
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.