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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 21, 2006Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2006, 2:01 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 21, 2006, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2006, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPitt47 min
Jun 21, 3:14 PM EDTMarine Weather StatementMHX106 min
Jun 21, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare, Tyrrell28 min
Jun 21, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven24 min
Jun 21, 4:23 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX37 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.