Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2001, 2:32 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 18, 2001, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Calypso, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
479 WUUS52 KMHX 181833 SVRMHX NCC061-181915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 232 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 232 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BEAUTANCUS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3515 7820 3502 7804 3517 7775 3539 7788 12
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 18, 10:43 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 10:43 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1043 AM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 FRONT HAS STALLED NEAR ORF-CLT LINE AND LITTLE ADDITIONAL MOVEMENT EXPECTED TODAY. ONGOING CONVECTION IN PRE-FRONTAL ZONE STARTING TO WANE AS SHRT WV STARTING TO MOVE OUT. THIS AGREES WELL WITH LATEST MODELS WHICH INDICATE LULL 15-21Z THEN REDEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING AS ANOTHER SHRT WV MOVES IN. WILL UPDATE ZFP MAINLY FOR INLAND AREAS WHERE WILL UP POPS TO 50% AND LOWER MAX TEMPS TO MID TO UPPER 80S. COAST GENERALLY OK. CWF: ONLY CHANGE WAS TO DROP SPEED 5 KNOTS FOR N WATERS AS CURRENT WINDS ARE NOT AS HIGH AS IN PREVIOUS FCST. CONTINUED THOUGHT OF INCREASING WINDS LATER THIS AFTERNOON WITH SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION LATE THIS AFTERNOON FOR WATERS S OF OCRACOKE INLET. .MHX...NONE. JBM/WS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 29 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.