Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2002, 10:41 PM EDT for Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 19, 2002, 10:41 PM EDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2002, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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 19, 11:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Roper, NC | Numerous trees and power lines blown from Roper to Pleasant Grove. |
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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 2879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
911 WUUS52 KMHX 200241 SVRMHX NCC187-200315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1040 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1040 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PLYMOUTH...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WESTOVER AT 1045 PM EDT. ROPER AT 1050 PM EDT. PLEASANT GROVE AT 1055 PM EDT. 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 3593 7681 3576 7680 3575 7636 3598 7637 5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 64 min | |
| Jul 20, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min | |
| Jul 20, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 20, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 38 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.