Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2001, 3:43 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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
- Apr 17, 2001, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 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 19:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 M | Salter Path, NC | |
| Apr 17, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Morehead City, NC | A severe thunderstorm produced a tornado which touched down on the north side of Morehead City. The tornado touched down near the intersection of 20th St. and Champion Dr. The tornado uprooted numerous trees, caused minor roof damage, and tossed a 1 ton boa |
| Apr 17, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Sealevel, NC | A weak tornado moved over Open Grounds Farms, knocking over trees. |
| Apr 17, 4:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Sealevel, 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, 7.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
161 WUUS52 KMHX 171943 SVRMHX NCC031-172030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 343 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BROAD CREEK...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF EMERALD ISLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWPORT AT 345 PM EDT. MOREHEAD CITY...AND...HARLOWE AT 405 PM EDT. NORTH RIVER...AND...BEAUFORT AT 415 PM EDT. OTWAY...AND...SMYRNA AT 425 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. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3486 7706 3468 7706 3465 7642 3489 7642 5
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 Apr 17, 2:48 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:48 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 248 PM EDT TUE APR 17 2001 ...THE WORD IS COLD... MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT. A STRONG H5 VORT WILL TRACK ACROSS NC THIS AFTERNOON AND OFF THE VA COAST BY 06Z. EXPECT SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF CWA THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON WITH ISOLATED TSTMS POSSIBLE. SOME SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE AS WELL. FOR N PART OF CWA WILL MENTION RAIN/SNOW SHOWERS JUST IN CASE A FEW FLAKES FALL. EVEN IF SNOW SHOWERS DO FALL...GROUND TEMPS ARE TOO WARM FOR ANY ACCUMULATION. MUCH OF THE LIFT WILL BE OFF THE COAST BY 06Z AND THE HIGHEST POPS WILL BE OVER COASTAL SECTIONS WITH THE OUTER BANKS HAVING THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS. RECORD LOWS COULD OCCUR TONIGHT BUT WINDS SHOULD STAY UP ENOUGH TO PREVENT FROST FROM FORMING. RECORD LOWS TOMORROW NIGHT WITH A LIGHT FREEZE AND FROST PROBABLE SINCE HIGH WILL BE MOVING ALMOST OVERHEAD AND WINDS BECOME LIGHT. VERY COLD UPPER LOW OVER WV WILL MOVE E THEN LIFT OUT TO THE NE. SFC LOW OFFSHORE WILL LIFT NE AND DEEPEN WREAKING HAVOC FOR NE U.S. WEDNESDAY EXPECIALLY MARINE INTERESTS. SFC HIGH OVER N PLAINS WILL BUILD S TO AR BY 12Z WED THEN MOVE E AND BE CENTERED OVER THE SE U.S. BY THU MORNING. TEMPS...WHERE THERE IS A DIFFERENCE WILL GO WITH COOLER MAV NUMBERS. RECORD LOW TEMPS: WED 18TH THU 19TH EWN 35/1966 36/1983 NKT 36/1966 35/1983 NCA 38/1962 36/1983 EXTENDED...DRY WITH A WARMING TREND. THANKS AKQ FOR COORDINATION. CWF...LOW PRES ALONG CST TO DEEPEN AND MOVE NE OVR NIGHT. STRONG GRADIENT AND COLD ADV TO MOVE TO CSTL WATERS EARLY THIS EVENING. XPCT GALE TONIGHT WITH SOME DECREASE OVR S WTRS AND SOUNDS LATE. WNDS TO DROP TO BLO GALE EARLY WED N WTRS AND DIMINISH ALL AREAS DURING THE DAY AS HIGH PRES APPROACHES. WED NIGHT AND THU: HIGH CONT TO APPROACH WATERS WED NIGHT AND SETTLES IN OVR AREA THU WITH WNDS AND SEAS DIMINISHING FURTHER IN RESPONSE TO WEAKENING GRADIENT. .MHX...GALE WARN CSTL WTRS AND SNDS. PUBLIC/FIRE......WS AVIATION.........JBM MARINE...........GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 29 min |
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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.