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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 3, 2005Beaufort County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2005, 5:10 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2005, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2005, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beaufort County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 3, 5:17 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	5 Se Washington, NC	PUBLIC REPORTED PENNY SIZE HAIL SE OF WASHINGTON

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: -282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KMHX 032110 RRA
SVRMHX
NCC013-032200-
/O.NEW.KMHX.SV.W.0045.050803T2110Z-050803T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
510 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 505 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RIVER ROAD...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF WASHINGTON...AND MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL BEAUFORT COUNTY AROUND 520 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 3561 7678 3568 7699 3543 7715 3534 7690

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KMHX 032132
SVSMHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
531 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

NCC013-032200-
/O.CON.KMHX.SV.W.0045.000000T0000Z-050803T2200Z/
BEAUFORT NC-
531 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR
BEAUFORT COUNTY...

AT 527 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
 THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RIVER ROAD...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
WASHINGTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. REPORTS OF DIME TO QUARTER 
SIZES HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED EAST OF WASHINGTON.

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 3561 7678 3568 7699 3543 7715 3534 7690

$$

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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 Aug 3, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
258 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE FORMED JUST NORTH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH CU
FIELDS ACROSS ESTRN NC ARE NOT IMPRESSIVE, THESE STORMS WILL DRIFT
SOUTH TOWARD THE REGION AND ASSCTD OUTFLOW COULD TRIGGER
ADDITIONAL ISOLD STORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. TSTMS SHOULD END
AROUND SUNSET WITH LOSS OF HEATING. THEREAFTER EXPECTING QUIET WX
WITH MAINLY CLR SKIES/LGT WINDS AND PATCHY FOG. LOWS WILL BE AROUND
70.

THE FORECAST FOR THU-SAT WILL BE SIMILAR TO TODAY AS WEAK HIGH
PRES TO THE NORTHWEST SHIFTS OFF THE COAST FRI ALLOWING A WEAK FRONT
TO SETTLE OVER THE MID ATLC WHERE IT WILL WASH OUT. SFC PRESSURES
REMAIN RELATIVELY HIGH ACROSS ESTRN NC WITH ONLY MARGINAL AMOUNTS
OF MOIST AND WEAK FORCING FOR ORGANIZED PCPN EVENTS. THE NAM WAS
BONE DRY THROUGH SAT WITH THE GFS PAINTING ISOLD DIURNAL SEA
BREEZE CONVECTION. MOS POPS WERE WELL BELOW CLIMO. SURFACE BASED
CAPE AND LIS WILL ENOUGH TO SUPPORT A FEW ISOLD STORMS EACH DAY BUT
AERIAL COVERAGE WILL BE 10% OR LESS...THUS I OPTED TO KEEP POPS
OUT OF THE FORECAST SINCE MOST LOCATIONS WILL BE DRY. LATER SHIFTS
CAN FINE TUNE IF PCPN PATTERN BECOMES MORE APPARENT. HIGHS WILL BE
IN THE LOWER 90S WITH A FEW MIDDLE 90S IN THE NORMALLY HOT SPOTS.
THIS IN COMBINATION WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S WILL
PRODUCE HI VALUES OF 100-105 DEGREES. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE IN
THE LOWER 70S INLAND/MIDDLE 70S COAST.

&&

.LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...THE SURFACE FRONT
WASHES OUT TO THE NORTH SUNDAY WHILE BERMUDA HIGH PRES RIDGES
INTO AREA FROM THE EAST. THE SW ATLC UPPER RIDGE WILL RETROGRADE
TOWARD THE GOM THROUGH THE PERIOD. A SERIES OF DIFFICULT TO TIME
PERTURBATIONS WILL ROTATE AROUND THE HIGH IN A RING OF FIRE
FASHION TO PRODUCE SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS. SINCE TIMING THESE PCPN
EVENTS IS IMPOSSIBLE FAR OUT IN TIME...WE WILL BROADBRUSH A LOW
CHANCE POP THROUGH THE PERIOD. TEMPERATURES WILL BE CLOSE TO
SEASONAL NORMS.

&&

.AVIATION...MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS EVENING...EXCEPT FOR
BRIEF MVFR CIG/VSBY IN ISOLD CONVECTION. PATCHY FOG SHOULD DEVELOP
LATE TONIGHT/EARLY THU...PRODUCING MVFR VSBY.  VFR CONDITIONS
EXPECTED TO RETURN TO MOST AREAS BY 13Z.

&&

.MARINE...HIGH PRES IN THE MID AND UPPER LVLS WILL CONTINUE TO
PROVIDE GOOD BOATING CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION FOR THE REST OF
THE FCST PERIOD. SOME RESIDUAL 2 TO 3 FT 8-9 SEC SE SWELL ASSOCIATED
WITH T.S HARVEY AND THE MID ATLANTIC HIGH WILL CONTINUE TO REACH
THE REGION...KEEPING SEAS AROUND THE 3FT MARK DESPITE WINDS
GENERALLY 10 KT OR LESS. PREFERRED THE ETA12 WINDS FOR THE SHORT
TERM AND A HPC/GFS BLEND FOR THE EXTENDED. WNAWAVE SEA HEIGHTS LOOK
REASONABLE.

RIP CURRENTS...EXPECT A LOW THREAT ON THU FOR ALL BEACHES WITH LIGHT
EAST WINDS AND 2-3FT 8 SEC SWELL.

&&

.MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...ELARDO
LONG TERM...ELARDO
AVIATION...PRINGLE
MARINE...PRINGLE

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 3:50 AM EDT, 13 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
350 AM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

AMZ130-135-150-152-154-156-158-NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-
103-104-040800-
ALBEMARLE SOUND-PAMLICO SOUND-
S OF CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT TO OREGON INLET NC OUT 20 NM-
S OF OREGON INLET TO CAPE HATTERAS NC OUT 20 NM-
S OF CAPE HATTERAS TO OCRACOKE INLET NC OUT 20 NM
INCLUDING THE MONITOR NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY-
S OF OCRACOKE INLET TO CAPE LOOKOUT NC OUT 20 NM-
S OF CAPE LOOKOUT TO N OF SURF CITY NC OUT 20 NM-MARTIN-PITT-
WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-MAINLAND HYDE-
DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
350 AM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

CGG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:18 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
418 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

NCZ044-080-032130-
PITT-BEAUFORT-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GREENVILLE...WASHINGTON...RIVER ROAD
418 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING PITT AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN MARTIN COUNTY WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO PITT
AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES THROUGH 5:15 PM THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUSTS
UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA.

VINCENT

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:41 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
441 PM EDT WED AUG 03 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     HAIL             BEARGRASS               35.77N 77.13W
08/03/2005  0.75 INCH        MARTIN             NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            PENNY SIZE HAIL IN BEARGRASS REPORTED BY COUNTY EM

&&

JELARDO

Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
444 PM EDT WED AUG 03 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0435 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 SW EVERETTS           35.79N 77.22W
08/03/2005                   MARTIN             NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            LARGE TREE LIMB BLOCKING PART OF ROAD

&&

JELARDO

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:02 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
502 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

NCZ079-091-093-094-032215-
GREENE-LENOIR-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SNOW HILL...HOOKERTON...KINSTON...
NEW BERN...HAVELOCK...ORIENTAL...ALLIANCE...BAYBORO...ARAPAHOE...
MINNESOTT BEACH...VANDEMERE...STONEWALL
502 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2005

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING GREENE...LENOIR...CRAVEN AND
PAMLICO COUNTIES...

VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PITT AND BEAUFORT COUNTIES WILL MOVE
SOUTH INTO GREENE...LENOIR...NORTHERN CRAVEN AND PAMLICO COUNTIES
BY 6:00 PM THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH...FREQUENT
DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA.

VINCENT

Local storm report, Aug 3, 5:04 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
504 PM EDT WED AUG 03 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0501 PM     HAIL             GREENVILLE              35.60N 77.37W
08/03/2005  0.75 INCH        PITT               NC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PENNY SIZE HAIL IN REPORTED IN GREENVILLE

&&

JELARDO

Local storm report, Aug 3, 5:06 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
506 PM EDT WED AUG 03 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0503 PM     HAIL             GREENVILLE              35.60N 77.37W
08/03/2005  1.00 INCH        PITT               NC   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN PITT COUNTY

&&

JELARDO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		43 min
Aug 3, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	47 min
Aug 3, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Pitt	43 min
Aug 3, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	50 min
Aug 3, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Lenoir	47 min
Aug 3, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		41 min
Aug 3, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	35 min
Aug 3, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pamlico	39 min
Aug 3, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven	39 min
Aug 3, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Onslow	38 min
Aug 3, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		46 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.