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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2008, 8:09 AM EDT for Carteret County, Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- May 5, 2008, 8:09 AM EDT (12:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carteret County, NC, Pamlico County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 1119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 May 5, 3:16 AM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:16 AM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 359 AM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-060800- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 359 AM EDT MON MAY 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OR...LESS LIKELY...DAMAGING WINDS. THE TIMING FOR THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR IS GREATEST DURING THE MID AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 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, May 5, 5:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 20 min |
| May 4, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:19 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min | |
| May 5, 8:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 min | |
| May 5, 9:07 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 53 min | |
| May 5, 9:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| May 5, 9:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| May 5, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 88 min | |
| May 5, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 51 min |
| May 5, 3:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 3 hr |
| May 5, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 38 min | |
| May 5, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 62 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.