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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 22, 2004Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2004, 6:35 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2004, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

364 
WUUS52 KMHX 222235
SVRMHX
NCC117-222315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
634 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 633 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND     
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED EAST   
  OF BEARGRASS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF WILLIAMSTON...AND MOVING  
  EAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SMITHWICK AROUND 650 PM EDT.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE UNTIL IT PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3575 7683 3572 7683 3565 7698 3573 7715
      3578 7718 3587 7691 3582 7690 3581 7688
      3586 7683 3588 7683 3578 7681

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		42 min
May 22, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	25 min
May 22, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		52 min
May 22, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	29 min
May 22, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	41 min
May 22, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	42 min
May 22, 7:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Pitt	115 min
May 22, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort	37 min
May 22, 7:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort	93 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.