Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2008, 4:16 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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 5, 2008, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2008, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 5, 11:05 AM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 11:05 AM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 2:44 AM EDT, 13 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 244 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-061000- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 244 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 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 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1218 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 NCZ098-051700- ONSLOW- 1218 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ONSLOW COUNTY UNTIL 100 PM EDT... AT 1218 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW RIVER AIR STATION...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR HAWS RUN AT 1245 PM EDT...VERONA AT 1255 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE CAMP LEJEUNE MAIN GATE...CATHERINE LAKE...DIXON AND FOLKSTONE. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN ON AREA ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES AND INJURIES OCCUR IN OPEN AREAS OR UNDER TREES. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING OR CAR. DO NOT TAKE SHELTER IN SMALL SHEDS...UNDER ISOLATED TREEES...OR IN CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:52 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1252 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 NCZ094-095-051730- PAMLICO-CARTERET- 1252 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARTERET AND PAMLICO COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM EDT... AT 1252 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL PAMLICO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAVELOCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR JANEIRO AT 105 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE ORIENTAL...MERRIMON...MERRITT AND PAMLICO. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN ON AREA ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES AND INJURIES OCCUR IN OPEN AREAS OR UNDER TREES. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING OR CAR. DO NOT TAKE SHELTER IN SMALL SHEDS...UNDER ISOLATED TREEES...OR IN CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 206 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 NCZ044-091-093-051900- LENOIR-PITT-CRAVEN- 206 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CRAVEN...PITT AND LENOIR COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT... AT 206 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWESTERN CRAVEN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF KINSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR QUINERLY AT 220 PM EDT...RIVERSIDE...AND...JOHNSONS MILLS AT 225 PM EDT...HONOLULU AT 230 PM EDT...CALICO AT 235 PM EDT...SHELMERDINE AT 240 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE GRIFTON...VANCEBORO... DOVER...FORT BARNWELL AND JASPER. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN ON AREA ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES AND INJURIES OCCUR IN OPEN AREAS OR UNDER TREES. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING OR CAR. DO NOT TAKE SHELTER IN SMALL SHEDS...UNDER ISOLATED TREEES...OR IN CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 5:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin | 113 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.