Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 436
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2003, 3:40 PM EDT for 47 counties in North Carolina; Darlington County, Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2003, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Pender | 58 min |
| May 29, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 27 min |
| May 29, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 27 min |
| May 29, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 25 min |
| May 29, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 19 min |
| May 29, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 52 min |
| May 29, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 23 min |
| May 29, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Lenoir | 48 min |
| May 29, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 45 min |
| May 29, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 54 min |
| May 29, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde | 25 min |
| May 29, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 36 min |
| May 29, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Pamlico | 44 min |
| May 29, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 30 min |
| May 29, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 61 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:22 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 15 more | 113 min |
| May 29, 1:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Harnett, Hoke and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 5:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Carteret, Chatham and 40 more | 97 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.