Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2002, 6:25 PM EDT for Craven 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
- Jul 5, 2002, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Ft Barnwell, 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 nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
468 WUUS52 KMHX 052225 SVRMHX NCC049-052315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 624 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT BARNWELL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF KINSTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DOVER AT 635 PM EDT. COVE CITY AT 640 PM EDT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ 17
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 Jul 5, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 230 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002 OVERVIEW: LEADING EDGE OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHING THE ALBEMARLE SOUND. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AIRMASS IS OPPRESSIVE AS OUR HEAT INDICES HAVE BEEN IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW/MIDDLE 90S AND DEWPOINTS IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 70S. INSTABILITY IS IMPRESSIVE WITH LAPS/MSAS FIELDS INDICATING LIS AS LOW AS -10 WITH CAPES NEAR 4000 J/KG. EXPECT SOME CONVECTIVE INITIATION AHEAD OF FRONT THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE CURRENT 40 PCT POP WILL PROBABLY COVER THE ACTIVITY WELL. COULD CERTAINLY SEE SOME SVR GIVEN THE INSTABILITY. SHORT TERM: FOLLOWING THE SCT TSTMS WITH THE FROPA TONIGHT...EXPECT A MUCH MORE PLEASANT AIRMASS TO ENSUE FOR THE WEEKEND AS STRONG HIGH PRES OVER THE GREAT LAKES RIDGES DOWN THE EAST COAST. DEWPOINTS WILL DROP INTO THE MIDDLE 60S ON SATURDAY WITH TEMPS ABOUT 10 DEG COOLER. EXTENDED: BERMUDA HIGH PRES PATTERN SETS UP FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH SOME WEAK RIPPLES IN A VERY WEAK UPPER FLOW PATTERN. NEXT CHC OF PRECIP LATE DURING NEXT WEEK AS SHORTWAVE ENERGY DIVES SOUTH WED THRU FRI. MARINE: AT 17Z...TROF WAS LOCATED INLAND WITH FRNTL BNDRY FARTHER N ACROSS THE NC/VA BORDER. ETA/AVN STILL SHOWING DIFFS IN TIMING ACTUAL FRNTL BNDRY WIND SHIFT...WITH THE AVN BEING SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN ETA. THE MAIN DIFFS ARE AROUND 00Z THIS EVENING...BUT WITH PASSAGE OF ANTICIPATED LATE AFTERNOON TSTMS...WL LEAN CLOSER TO AVN AND SHIFT WINDS TO N AS FAR SOUTH AS CLKN7 BETWEEN 00-04Z. NE WINDS THROUGHOUT ALL WTRS BY 12Z SAT...FOLLOWED BY BRIEF WEAK N-NE 15 KT SURGE SAT MORN THRU EARLY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS WL REMAIN BLO SCA CRITERIA. OTHRWS...FVRBL CONDITIONS WITH NO FLAGS THRU MID TUE WITH RIDGE BUILDING IN. .MHX...SVR TSTM WATCH UNTIL 00Z FOR NCZ029-044>047-079>081 FCSTID = 11/17 MHX 73 85 65 88 / 40 00 00 00 EWN 73 85 65 88 / 40 00 00 00 HSE 73 83 69 84 / 40 00 00 00 PGV 72 86 66 89 / 40 00 00 00 PUBLIC/FIRE...COLLINS MARINE/AVIATION...PETRO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 32 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.