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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 29, 2006Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2006, 5:56 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 29, 2006, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2006, 6:28 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 318 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2006-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2219 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2006-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 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
Jul 28, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXMartin38 min
Jul 28, 8:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX63 min
Jul 28, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare57 min
Jul 28, 8:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX54 min
Jul 28, 9:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene44 min
Jul 28, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington51 min
Jul 28, 9:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX61 min
Jul 28, 9:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Pitt49 min
Jul 28, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXWashington61 min
Jul 28, 10:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHXWashington2 hr
Jul 28, 10:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort47 min
Jul 28, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde55 min
Jul 28, 11:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX86 min
Jul 29, 12:07 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX53 min
Jul 29, 5:51 AM EDTCoastal Flood StatementMHX12 hr
Jul 29, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow51 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.