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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 27, 2008Dare County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2008, 4:52 PM EDT for Dare County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 27, 2008, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2008, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Dare County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 350 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2008-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2008-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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 27, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXPamlico44 min
Jun 27, 3:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX39 min
Jun 27, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXHyde50 min
Jun 27, 4:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX51 min
Jun 27, 4:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX67 min
Jun 27, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX31 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.