Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2006, 6:31 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
- Apr 3, 2006, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 62 min | |
| Apr 3, 11:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 13 min |
| Apr 3, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 1:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 39 min | |
| Apr 3, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 66 min | |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| Apr 3, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 95 min | |
| Apr 3, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | 36 min | |
| Apr 3, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 66 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.