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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 14, 2002Beaufort County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 4:10 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Beaufort County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 4:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Aurora, NC	Numerous trees and power lines blown down from Aurora to Pinetown.

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 142010
SVRMHX
NCC013-142100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
411 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEAUFORT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PINETOWN TO BLOUNTS CREEK...OR
  FROM 11 MILES EAST OF WASHINGTON TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF WASHINGTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   TERRA CEIA...AND...EDWARD AT 415 PM EDT.
   BATH AT 420 PM EDT.
   BAYVIEW AT 425 PM EDT.
   YEATESVILLE...AND...AURORA AT 430 PM EDT.
   PUNGO...AND...RANSOMVILLE AT 435 PM EDT.
   BELHAVEN AT 440 PM EDT.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PUT YOUR
CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A 
SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

$$

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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, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:30 PM EDT, 40 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, 58 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, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	25 min
Jun 14, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	55 min
Jun 14, 4:25 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

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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.