Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Apr 18, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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 20:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:53 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Blounts Creek Statio, 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 12:00Z, 8.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KMHX 182030 SVRMHX NCC013-182100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 429 PM EDT THU APR 18 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 429 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF EDWARD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAYBORO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EDWARD AT 440 PM EDT. BLOUNTS CREEK AT 500 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3514 7690 3526 7673 3552 7696 3538 7717 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 Apr 18, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 220 PM EDT THU APR 18 2002 BERMUDA HIGH STILL IN CONTROL AT THE SFC AND UPPER RIDGE STILL CONTINUING TO FLATTEN. NO REAL AIR MASS CHANGE THRU TOMORROW SO TEMPS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE WARM TONIGHT WITH TEMPS IN THE 65-70 RANGE NEAR THE COAST AND LOWER 60S IN THE USUAL COOLER LOCALES. EXPECT SOME DEBRIS CI TONIGHT FROM ANY TSTMS THAT DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THE TSTMS TO DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET IF NOT BEFORE. WOULD EXPECT SOME CI TO SPILL OVER THE TOP OF THE RIDGE TOMORROW AND SATURDAY WITH SOME CU FORMING ONCE THE CONVECTIVE TEMP HAS BEEN REACHED TOMORROW AND AGAIN SATURDAY. PC SHOULD PROBABLY WORK FOR TOMORROW AND TEMPS CLOSE TO TODAYS VALUES. NOT MUCH OF A TRIGGER FOR PCPN OTHER THAN SEA BREEZE CONVERGENCE UNTIL TOMORROW NIGHT WHEN A WEAK VORT MOVES ACROSS E NC. IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WEAK VORT THERE WILL BE AN H85 THETA-E RIDGE OVER E NC TOMORROW NIGHT. A CHANCE OF PM TSTMS SAT. TEMPS...ONCE AGAIN FWC TEMPS LOOK BETTER THAN MAV. EXTENDED...MRF HAS FRONT SAGGING S SLOWER THAN YESTERDAYS SO COOLER AIR WONT GET HERE UNTIL SUNDAY. SAT NIGHT THRU LATE MORNING MON A SERIES OF VORTS AND WAVES OF LOW PRESSURE WILL KEEP US IN CHANCE POPS WITH BEST CHANCE SUN NIGHT INTO MON MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN MON NIGHT AND MOVING OFF VACAPES LATE TUE. ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHES WED NIGHT AND MOVES THROUGH THU. WILL ONLY GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS WED NIGHT INTO THU. RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR TOMORROW... EWN 91/1985 HSE 81/1995 NCA 91/1985 NKT 89/1958 MARINE: PERSISTENT PATTERN IN MARINE FCST AS SW FLOW CONTINUES. SOME INCREASE IN WIND FRI NIGHT AS MID-LEVEL VORT CENTER PASSES OVER OUR NRN WATERS AND THIS WILL BE REFLECTED WITH 20 KT WINDS N OF HAT FRI NIGHT. GLOBAL WAVE MODELS HINT AT SEAS INCREASING TO THE 4 TO 5 FEET RANGE FRI NIGHT INTO SAT AS WELL. NO FLAGS THRU THE PERIOD. .MHX...NONE WS/CTC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 3:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
NCZ080-092-093-098-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 316 PM EDT THU APR 18 2002 WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER INLAND SECTIONS OF ONSLOW COUNTY...ALONG WITH JONES...CRAVEN AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. CTC
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 4:11 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NCZ045-046-080-081-092>094-098-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 411 PM EDT THU APR 18 2002 WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA EXTENDING FROM INLAND ONSLOW COUNTY NORTHWARD ACROSS THE NEW BERN AREA TO BEAUFORT COUNTY AND OVER TYRRELL...WASHINGTON AND MAINLAND DARE COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF OVER ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE. CTC
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.