Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2002, 10:22 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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
- May 13, 2002, 10:22 PM EDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 140222 SVRMHX NCC133-140245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1021 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 1021 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF RICHLANDS TO 10 MILES WEST OF CATHERINE LAKE...OR FROM 12 MILES WEST OF TRENTON TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF BEULAVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RICHLANDS AT 1035 PM EDT. CATHERINE LAKE AT 1040 PM EDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ 11
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 54 min |
| May 13, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Martin, Pitt | 37 min |
| May 13, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 59 min |
| May 13, 9:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 24 min |
| May 13, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 44 min |
| May 13, 9:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| May 13, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 58 min |
| May 13, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 51 min |
| May 13, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 20 min |
| May 13, 10:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.