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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 5, 2002Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2002, 8:47 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 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, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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, 9:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 M	Sneads Ferry, 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

304 
WUUS52 KMHX 060047
SVRMHX
NCC133-060145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
846 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 846 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM RICHLANDS TO 9 MILES WEST OF
  CATHERINE LAKE...OR FROM 12 MILES EAST OF BEULAVILLE TO 12 MILES
  SOUTH OF BEULAVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   CATHERINE LAKE AT 855 PM EDT.
   HAWS RUN...AND...HALF MOON AT 905 PM EDT.
   DIXON...AND...VERONA AT 920 PM EDT.
   PINEY GREEN...AND...DEPPE AT 930 PM EDT.
   SNEADS FERRY AT 935 PM EDT.
   HUBERT AT 940 PM EDT.

 OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BELGRADE...CAMP LEJEUNE AND
  NEW RIVER AIR STATION.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

EXCESSIVE DEADLY LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS SEVERE WEATHER. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3499 7766 3469 7769 3448 7742 3487 7706

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	67 min
Jul 5, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	65 min
Jul 5, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	61 min
Jul 5, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	53 min
Jul 5, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		67 min
Jul 5, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		91 min
Jul 5, 11:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Lenoir	119 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.