Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 4:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Plymouth, NC | |
| Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pleasant Grove, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 142030 SVRMHX NCC177-187-142115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 430 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TYRRELL COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SCUPPERNONG TO WENONA...OR FROM 10 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA TO 11 MILES NORTH OF BELHAVEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... PHELPS LAKE...AND...CRESWELL AT 435 PM EDT. WOODLEY...AND...PUNGO LAKE AT 440 PM EDT. COLUMBIA AT 450 PM EDT. NEWFOUNDLAND AT 500 PM EDT. FRYING PAN LANDING...AND...FORT LANDING AT 510 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 60 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. $$ LAT...LON 3600 7644 3568 7671 3569 7620 3598 7599 6
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, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 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, 1 hour 18 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, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 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.