Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 3:35 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
- Jun 14, 2002, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jones County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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, 3:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Comfort, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 141935 SVRMHX NCC103-142000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 335 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 335 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PLEASANT HILL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... COMFORT AT 340 PM EDT. PHILLIPS CROSSROADS AT 345 PM EDT. TRENTON AT 355 PM EDT. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE OR IN MOBILE HOMES SHOULD MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER...INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3508 7763 3490 7761 3492 7712 3515 7714
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, 3:30 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:30 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 CURRENT LINE OF STRONG/SVR STORMS WILL AFFECT AREA INTO EVE...THEN EXPECT ANOTHER BOUT OF STORMS OVERNIGHT ASSCTD WITH STRONGER SHRT WV UPSTREAM. CATEGORICAL POPS PLANNED FOLLOWING HIGHER NUMBERS FROM ETA MOS. 1ST COLD FRONT WILL MAKE IT OFF COAST AROUND 12Z...THEN SECONDARY FRONT SAT NIGHT...FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ONE SUN NIGHT. THESE REINFORCING SHOTS OF COOLER DRIER AIR WILL BE IN RESPONSE TO ADDITIONAL SHRT WVS ROTATING AROUND BASE OF UPR LOW MOVING INTO ERN GREAT LAKES. MEAN RH AND OMEGA WILL BE LIMITED AFTER TONIGHT AND PLAN ON DRY FCST OVER WEEKEND OTHER THAN LINGERING 20 POP SAT AM ALONG COAST. STRONGER SHRT WV ROTATING IN MON AND WILL GO WITH CHC POP...OTHERWISE DRY FCST FOR DAYS 4-7. CONSENSUS MOS TEMPS ACCEPTED FOR SHORT TERM. CWF: BOUYS INDICATING WINDS IN THE 20 KT PLUS RANGE. WITH THE GRADIENT EXPECTED TO FURTHER TIGHTEN WITH APPROACH OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL RAISE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT. WILL ALSO MENTION HIGHER WINDS AND SEAS WITH EXPECTED THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME WESTERLY AND THEN SOUTHWEST AND DECREASE TO BELOW SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS. .MHX...SCA S OF CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT TO N OF SURF CITY. JBM/RP CORRECTED TO INCLUDE SCA ON WARNING LINE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:12 PM EDT, 23 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, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 32 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.