Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 425

June 14, 200233 counties in North Carolina; Berkeley County, Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT for 33 counties in North Carolina; Berkeley County, Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina; 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 40 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Berkeley County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Southampton County, VA

Warnings issued inside it

18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	23 min
Jun 14, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	31 min
Jun 14, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus	36 min
Jun 14, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	29 min
Jun 14, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	37 min
Jun 14, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	35 min
Jun 14, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	49 min
Jun 14, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	46 min
Jun 14, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus	43 min
Jun 14, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Onslow	32 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones	25 min
Jun 14, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	34 min
Jun 14, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	55 min
Jun 14, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort	50 min
Jun 14, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Perquimans	16 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell, Washington	45 min
Jun 14, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Pasquotank	13 min
Jun 14, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Currituck	28 min

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.