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

May 12, 2005Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2005, 6:50 PM EDT for Jones 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 12, 2005, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jones County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2005-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 38 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2005-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 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.

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 122250
SVRMHX
NCC103-122330-
/O.NEW.KMHX.SV.W.0021.050512T2250Z-050512T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
650 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 644 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  POLLOCKSVILLE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING SOUTH
  AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MAYSVILLE AROUND 730 PM EDT...

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

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-800-889-6889...WHEN YOU CAN
DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3508 7715 3503 7735 3482 7718 3484 7706

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX64 min
May 12, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.