Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 9:52 PM EDT for Dare County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min. 2 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 28, 2002, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dare County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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 28, 10:13 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Duck, NC | |
| Apr 28, 10:42 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Kill Devil Hills, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KMHX 290152
SVRMHX
NCC055-177-290245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
952 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
TYRRELL COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
MAINLAND DARE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
* AT 952 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWFOUNDLAND...OR ABOUT
13 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
MASHOES AT 1015 PM EDT.
MANTEO...AND...NAGS HEAD AT 1025 PM EDT.
WANCHESE AT 1030 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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
$$
LAT...LON 3598 7621 3575 7610 3577 7552 3611 7573
3601 7608
12The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 83 min | |
| Apr 28, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 96 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.