Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 3:28 PM EDT for Duplin County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 14, 2002, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Duplin County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Richlands, NC | |
| Jun 14, 3:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Half Moon, NC | A mobile home was destroyed when a large pine tree fell in about 70 mph wind. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 141928 SVRMHX NCC061-133-142000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 328 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 327 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM POTTERS HILL TO CYPRESS CREEK... OR FROM 5 MILES EAST OF BEULAVILLE TO 13 MILES EAST OF WALLACE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RICHLANDS AT 345 PM EDT. CATHERINE LAKE AT 350 PM EDT. HAWS RUN...AND...HALF MOON AT 355 PM EDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3505 7773 3464 7789 3448 7748 3489 7732 15
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 Jun 14, 10:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 10:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1011 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 NO ZFP UPDATE PLANNED. CURRENT FCST IN GOOD SHAPE WITH 50/60 POPS FOR THIS AFTN. SVR THREAT MAINLY INLAND AS SEA BREEZE WILL STABILIZE CONDITIONS NEAR COAST. EXPECT MULTI-CELL LINE TO DEVELOP NEAR RDU-FAY WITH DIFFERENTIAL HEATING AND SHORT WV MOVING IN...PUSHING INTO COASTAL PLAIN AROUND 21Z. SCT LOW-TOPPED ACTIVITY POSSIBLE ACROSS REST OF CWA THIS AFTN BUT DEEP CONVECTION PRECLUDED BY SUBSIDENCE VERSION AT 700 MB PER 12Z MHX SOUNDING. TEMPS OK AND HEAT INDICES HANDLED BY CURRENT SPS. CWF: SW WINDS TO BECOME SRLY THIS AFTN WITH APPROACH OF FRONT. NO MAJOR ADJUSTMENTS TO CURRENT FCST. .MHX...NONE. JBM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:12 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 312 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. BY 330 PM...THE STORMS WILL LIKELY EXTEND FROM NORTHERN ONSLOW COUNTY TO TRENTON TO NEW BERN TO NEAR WASHINGTON TO WILLIAMSTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING SEVERE AS THEY APPROACH THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL 3/4 INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS. COLBY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 47 min | |
| Jun 14, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 25 min |
| Jun 14, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 59 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.