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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 1, 2008Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2008, 4:15 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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 1, 2008, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2008, 4:50 PM EDT
In force
35 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 20:17 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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2008-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 865 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2008-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
865 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.0

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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 Jun 1, 10:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 10:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 5:35 AM EDT, 10 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
535 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-020945-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-
535 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES
THE REGION...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A FEW
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE
PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.

NCZ095-098-103-104-020945-
CARTERET-ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
535 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FROM CAPE HATTERAS SOUTH
TO SURF CITY.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES
THE REGION...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A FEW
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE
PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 1:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare15 min
Jun 1, 1:45 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX30 min
Jun 1, 2:16 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX44 min
Jun 1, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXOnslow47 min
Jun 1, 6:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX66 min
Jun 1, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare41 min
Jun 1, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret, Onslow44 min
Jun 1, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret41 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.