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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2007, 4:05 PM EDT for Greene County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 7, 2007, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2007, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 7, 10:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 10:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1000 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007 .SYNOPSIS... WEAK BOUNDARY OVER CENTRAL NC WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN TODAY. A DISTURBANCE OVER TX WILL MOVE ALONG THE GULF COAST STATES AND INTO NC SUNDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM FROM THE N WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA MONDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... THE 12Z MHX SOUNDING WAS MOIST AND UNSTABLE WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER OF 1.70 INCHES AND MODIFIED CAPE VALUES APPROACHING 4000 J/KG BASED ON THE HIGHER NAM DEWPOINTS WHICH APPEAR TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH CURRENT OBSERVATIONS. BOTH THE NAM AND WRF INDICATE QPF MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES SHORTLY AFTER NOON AND PROPAGATING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA TO THE NRN OUTER BANKS. ADDITIONALLY...THE WRF INDICATES STG MID-LEVEL SHORTWAVE TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THAT SHORTWAVE APPEARS ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CURRENTLY OVER NRN ALABAMA. WITH ALL THIS IN MIND...HAVE OPTED TO INCREASE POPS TO THE 30 TO 40 PCT RANGE FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. REMAINDER OF FCST REMAINS UNCHANGED. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... MID LVL ENERGY FRM SRN STREAM SYS WL STRETCH OVR SRN PART OF CWA TNGT...WHICH CUD KP TSTM ACTVTY GOING WELL INTO THE NGTTM HRS. SRN STREAM SYS WL APPCH NC ON SUN. NAM NOT GETTING TOO XCITD ABT PCPN POTENTIAL ON SUN. HWVR AS SFC LO APPCHS ON MON...XPCTG RAIN OVR MJRTY OF AREA MON AND MON NGT. NAM SHOWG WRM FRNT TYPE BNDRY OVR CWA MON AFTN WHICH WL PROVIDE ISENTROPIC LIFT. WL HV HIEST POPS MON AFTN. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... PIEDMONT THERMAL TROF/BERMUDA HIGH WILL PRODUCE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS TUE-THU WITH SLIGHT CHC POPS FOR AFTN/EVE TSTMS. HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 ARE LIKELY INLAND FROM COAST. COLD FRONT WILL BRING BETTER CHC OF STORMS LATE THU INTO FRI...WITH HIGH TEMPS NEAR NORMAL ON FRI. && .AVIATION /14Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... MVFR CEILINGS LIFTING WITH VFR ANTICIPATED THRU THE AFTERNOON WITH OCCASIONAL MVFR IN SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS AFTER 16Z. SYS MVG ALNG GULF COAST STATES WILL INFLUENCE THE WEATHER OVER EASTERN NC SUN NGT AND MON. EXPECTING MVFR RAIN MON. OTHERWISE GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WITH OCCASIONAL MVFR CONDITIONS IN LATE NIGHT FOG AND WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION. && .MARINE... LIGHT S-SWLY WINDS LESS THAN 10 KTS ACROSS THE WATERS THIS MORNING WITH SEAS 2-3 FT. MODELS INCREASING WINDS SLIGHTLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH 10-15 KT ACROSS MOST WATERS...ESPECIALLY AROUND SEABREEZE FRONT. WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO FORECAST AND GRIDS THIS MORNING. LIGHT WINDS WILL PERSIST TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING THEN SHOULD INCREASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO AROUND 15 KT FROM THE SW AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRES APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE SW. THE FORECAST BEYOND SUNDAY IS MORE UNCERTAIN AS THE PATTERN WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THE PREVAILING SW FLOW TO BE ENHANCED BY ANY WEAK PERTURBATIONS THE DEVELOP TO NORTH OR WEST BUT CONSENSUS OF THE GUIDANCE IS FOR CONDITIONS TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. && .RIP CURRENTS...LIGHT WINDS AND LOW ASTRONOMICAL TIDES WILL KEEP THE THE RIP CURRENT RISK LOW. && .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...CTC NEAR TERM...CTC SHORT TERM...CTC LONG TERM...JM AVIATION...CGG/CTC MARINE...SK
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 3:23 AM EDT, 12 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 323 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-080730- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 323 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| Jul 7, 1:33 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MHX | 42 min | |
| Jul 7, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 3:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Lenoir | 3 hr |
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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.