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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 23, 2004Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2004, 5:11 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 23, 2004, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lenoir County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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.

289 
WUUS52 KMHX 232111
SVRMHX
NCC107-232145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
510 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 506 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 NEAR
  KINSTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DAWSON AROUND 525 PM EDT...
  GRANGERS AROUND 540 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 3524 7774 3514 7755 3538 7734 3550 7758

$$

5

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	31 min
May 22, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	43 min
May 22, 9:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Pitt	2 hr
May 22, 9:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Greene	91 min
May 22, 11:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Pitt	3 hr
May 23, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	42 min
May 23, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	38 min
May 23, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	36 min
May 23, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	50 min
May 23, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	42 min
May 23, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	33 min
May 23, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	42 min
May 23, 5:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Pitt	97 min
May 23, 6:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Lenoir	90 min
May 23, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	38 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.