Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 7:38 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 22 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
- Apr 19, 2002, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyrrell County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 19, 7:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Columbia, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 192338
SVRMHX
NCC177-200000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
737 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
TYRRELL COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 737 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT LANDING
TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA...OR FROM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF
COLUMBIA TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
GUM NECK...AND...FRYING PAN LANDING AT 745 PM EDT.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER 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 3611 7604 3588 7635 3573 7640 3569 7606
3601 7593
10What 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 19, 6:44 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 6:44 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...ROUTINE DELAYED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 130 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 MODELS ARE PRETTY SIMILAR IN DEVELOPING A SFC LOW OVER SE VA TOMORROW AND MOVING OFF THE COAST LATE. FRONT WILL MAKE ITS WAY S SAT NIGHT THEN BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY JUST S OF OUR CWA SUNDAY. THEN AIR MASS CHANGING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MONDAY. MULTIPLE VORT MAXES MOVING THRU THE REGION PRIOR TO THE COLD FRONT MOVING THRU MONDAY WILL MAKE TIMING OF PCPN VERY DIFFICULT BUT IT LOOKS LIKE BEST CHANCE WILL BE LATE TOMORROW INTO TOMORROW NIGHT. THEN AGAIN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE COLD FRONT. H85 THETA-E RIDGE MOVES INTO OUR CWA AFTER 00Z TONIGHT AND ALL THE WAY TO THE COAST BY 12Z SAT SO WILL MAINTAIN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS FOR TONIGHT. ANOTHER THETA-E RIDGE MOVES OVER OUR CWA SUNDAY EVENING. TEMPS...FWC CONTINUES TO RULE. EXTENDED...AFTER COLD FRONT MOVES THRU MONDAY NOT MUCH CHANCE OF PCPN UNTIL THU NIGHT INTO FRI AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES THRU BUT THIS ONE WILL NOT TAP INTO GULF MOISTURE SO JUST SLIGHT CHANCE. BACK TO MORE SPRINGLIKE TEMPERATURE WITH LOWS BACK INTO THE 40S INLAND AND HIGHS AROUND 60-65 TUE...65-70 WED...UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S THU & FRI. .MHX...NONE WS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 4:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
NCZ090-092-093-098-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 436 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ONSLOW...JONES...CRAVEN AND DUPLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM EDT... AT 436 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON TO 8 MILES EAST OF WALLACE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR TRENTON AT 455 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE JACKSONVILLE AND NEW BERN. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. CTC
Local storm report, Apr 19, 5:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
545 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0526 PM POLLOCKSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/19/02 JONES REPORTED BY
SPOTTERSSpecial weather statement, Apr 19, 6:40 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
NCZ029-044-045-079-080-091-093-192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 640 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PITT...MARTIN...WASHINGTON... CRAVEN...GREENE...LENOIR AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM EDT... AT 640 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 24 MILES NORTH OF WILLIAMSTON TO 43 MILES WEST OF LA GRANGE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR WILLIAMSTON AT 650 PM EDT...PLYMOUTH AT 735 PM EDT...SNOW HILL AT 745 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE GREENVILLE...KINSTON AND WASHINGTON. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN ON AREA ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. JBM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 20 min |
| Apr 19, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 36 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.