Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2008, 4:01 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 7, 2008, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2008, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dare County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Aug 7, 3:57 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:57 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 357 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT. ANOTHER BOUNDARY WILL FORM OVER THE AREA FRIDAY EVENING AND MOVE OFF SHORE FRIDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRES WILL BUILD IN FROM THE WEST SATURDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE AREA TUESDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/... INCRSG CLDS ACRS AREA THIS AFTN. BNDRY LAYING UP JUST N OF HSE THRU RICHLANDS. TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPR 80S. NOT SEEING MUCH IN THE WAY OF A CBRZ FORMG YET. MOD SNDG WI T/TD 93/72 SHOWG CAPE ARND 3500. MAY SEE SUM ACTVTY THIS AFTN...BUT MAIN ACTVTY WL BE AFT SS TNGT WHEN MAIN PIECE OF ENERGY MVS UP FRMT HE SW. ARW IS SHOWG CBRZ ACTVTY LTR THIS AFTN BUT IS ALSO SHOWG ACTVTY ATTM...WHICH ISNT HAPPENING YET. 5H TROF STRTG TO DIG INTO AREA INCRSG SHR ACRS ERN NC. SUM TSTMS THAT FORM TNGT HV THE POTENTIAL TO BCM STG OR SVR. MAIN SVR THRT SHUD BE WND. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... ACTVTY THAT FORMS OVRNGT WL MV OFFSHR DURING THE DAY LGT HRS. W AND NW LO LVL FLO SHUD BRING DRIER COOLR AIR TO AREA...BUT CUD SEE SUM ACTVTY ALNG ANTHR BNDRY ALNG THE CST. 5H TROF RMNS OVR AREA. NLY FLO BHND BNDRY WL KP SAT DRY FOR ERN NC. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... UPR TROF OVR RGN SUN AND MON. MSTR RMNS LMTD SO NO XPCTG ANY PCPN. COOLR TEMPS UNDR LWR THICKNSSS. WL STRT TO SEE SUM MSTR RETRN FRM THE GLFMX ON TUE AS SYS APPCHS FRM THE W. LAST HALF OF THE WK WL SEE INCRSD CHCS OF POPS WI UPR LVL ENERGY AND TAP OF MSTR FRM GLFMX. HI TEMPS SHUD BE IN THE MID TO UPR 80S WI LOWS IN THE 70S. && .AVIATION /20Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... A WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SE TODAY AND WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR SCT LATE AFTERNOON AND NIGHTTIME SHRA AND TS ACTIVITY ACROSS THE TERMINALS. MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR PRECIP OTHERWISE VFR. FRONT WILL SAG SLOWLY SE ACROSS THE TERMINALS ON FRI THEN MOVE OFFSHORE FRI NIGHT WITH A CONTINUED CHANCE FOR CONVECTION OVER THE TERMINALS WITH MVFR/LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH PRECIP. DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED SAT THROUGH MON WITH SFC HIGH PRES BUILDING INTO THE AREA. && .MARINE... RELATIVELY TRANQUIL MARINE CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES SE ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH TONIGHT THEN SLOWLY OFFSHORE FRI NIGHT/EARLY SAT. CONVECTION WILL BE ON THE INCREASE OVER AREA WATERS TONIGHT INTO FRI AS THE FRONT NEARS. GRADIENT WILL REMAIN RELAXED AND EXPECT LIGHT W/SW WINDS AOB 15 KT CENTRAL/SOUTHERN WATERS TODAY WITH LIGHT N/NE WINDS NORTHERN WATERS BEHIND FRONT. LIGHT N/NE WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT OVER THE WEEKEND RETURNING TO LIGHT SOUTHERLY BY MON AS SFC HIGH PRES MOVES OFFSHORE TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. SEAS WILL REMAIN PREDOMINANTLY 2 TO 3 FT THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. && .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...CGG NEAR TERM...CGG SHORT TERM...CGG LONG TERM...CGG AVIATION...JW MARINE...JW
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 2:35 AM EDT, 13 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 235 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-080645- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 235 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:37 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 337 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 NCZ103-072015- EASTERN DARE- 337 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT DARE COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM EDT... AT 337 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL DARE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF BUXTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE RODANTHE... SALVO AND WAVES. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. 11
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 55 min | |
| Aug 7, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| Aug 7, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min |
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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.