Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 5:25 PM EDT for Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 20 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 19, 2002, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jones County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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 19, 5:26 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pollocksville, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 192125 SVRMHX NCC103-192145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 520 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER POLLOCKSVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW BERN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN JONES COUNTY AT 530 PM EDT. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3507 7732 3488 7713 3504 7714 3509 7722 10
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 19, 1:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...ROUTINE DELAYED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 130 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 MODELS ARE PRETTY SIMILAR IN DEVELOPING A SFC LOW OVER SE VA TOMORROW AND MOVING OFF THE COAST LATE. FRONT WILL MAKE ITS WAY S SAT NIGHT THEN BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY JUST S OF OUR CWA SUNDAY. THEN AIR MASS CHANGING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MONDAY. MULTIPLE VORT MAXES MOVING THRU THE REGION PRIOR TO THE COLD FRONT MOVING THRU MONDAY WILL MAKE TIMING OF PCPN VERY DIFFICULT BUT IT LOOKS LIKE BEST CHANCE WILL BE LATE TOMORROW INTO TOMORROW NIGHT. THEN AGAIN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE COLD FRONT. H85 THETA-E RIDGE MOVES INTO OUR CWA AFTER 00Z TONIGHT AND ALL THE WAY TO THE COAST BY 12Z SAT SO WILL MAINTAIN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS FOR TONIGHT. ANOTHER THETA-E RIDGE MOVES OVER OUR CWA SUNDAY EVENING. TEMPS...FWC CONTINUES TO RULE. EXTENDED...AFTER COLD FRONT MOVES THRU MONDAY NOT MUCH CHANCE OF PCPN UNTIL THU NIGHT INTO FRI AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES THRU BUT THIS ONE WILL NOT TAP INTO GULF MOISTURE SO JUST SLIGHT CHANCE. BACK TO MORE SPRINGLIKE TEMPERATURE WITH LOWS BACK INTO THE 40S INLAND AND HIGHS AROUND 60-65 TUE...65-70 WED...UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S THU & FRI. .MHX...NONE WS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 4:36 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
NCZ090-092-093-098-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 436 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ONSLOW...JONES...CRAVEN AND DUPLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM EDT... AT 436 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON TO 8 MILES EAST OF WALLACE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR TRENTON AT 455 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE JACKSONVILLE AND NEW BERN. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. CTC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 22 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.