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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 12, 2006Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2006, 5:40 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 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
Jun 12, 2006, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2006, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 2006-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1211 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 2006-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
1211 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 12:43 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX47 min
Jun 12, 4:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX52 min
Jun 12, 8:02 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX58 min
Jun 12, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow47 min
Jun 12, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin36 min
Jun 12, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow13 min
Jun 12, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven24 min
Jun 12, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX59 min
Jun 12, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven18 min
Jun 12, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort49 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX29 min
Jun 12, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX67 min
Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.