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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2005, 4:28 PM EST for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2005, 4:28 PM EST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2005, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tyrrell County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Mar 28, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 405 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-290905- BEAUFORT NC-CARTERET NC-CRAVEN NC-DUPLIN NC-GREENE NC-JONES NC- LENOIR NC-MAINLAND DARE NC-MAINLAND HYDE NC-MARTIN NC-ONSLOW NC- OUTER BANKS DARE NC-OUTER BANKS HYDE NC-PAMLICO NC-PITT NC- TYRRELL NC-WASHINGTON NC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATLANTIC BEACH...BAYBORO...BEAUFORT... BELHAVEN...BEULAVILLE...BUXTON...CEDAR ISLAND...COLUMBIA...DUCK... EMERALD ISLE...ENGELHARD...FRISCO...GREENVILLE...HARKERS ISLAND... HATTERAS VILLAGE...HAVELOCK...JACKSONVILLE...KENANSVILLE... KILL DEVIL HILLS...KINSTON...KITTY HAWK...LA GRANGE...MANNS HARBOR... MANTEO...MOREHEAD CITY...NAGS HEAD...NEW BERN... NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH...OCRACOKE...ORIENTAL...PLYMOUTH...SNOW HILL... SWANQUARTER...SWANSBORO...TRENTON...WALLACE...WARSAW... WASHINGTON AND WILLIAMSTON 405 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY ACROSS THE REGION AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH OF THE AREA. WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SUPPORTIVE AND GUSTS TO MORE THAN 60 MPH. THESE WINDS WILL ALSO BE FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES BUT THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. LATER TODAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SWINGS THROUGH THE REGION. COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL MAKE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. BY LATE IN THE DAY HAIL TO NEAR 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. MLF
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 10:30 AM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:57 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| Mar 28, 8:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 8:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 9:02 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Mar 28, 9:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 9:57 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| Mar 28, 11:05 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 25 min | |
| Mar 28, 4:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 27 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.