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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2008, 4:45 PM EDT for Duplin County, Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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 9, 2008, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2008, 5:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Jun 9, 4:33 PM EDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 4:33 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 420 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 NCZ029-044-079-080-090>095-098-100830- MARTIN-PITT-GREENE-BEAUFORT-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- CARTERET-ONSLOW- 420 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES OF AROUND 105 DEGREES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES MAY REQUIRE A HEAT ADVISORY ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ045>047-081-103-100830- WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-OUTER BANKS DARE- 420 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO LEAD TO HEAT INDEX VALUES OF AROUND 105 DEGREES TODAY. IN ADDITION TO THE HOT WEATHER...MOTORISTS TRAVELING ON HIGHWAYS 64...264...94...158 AND SURROUNDING ROADS SHOULD BE ADVISED OF AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE MILE THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES MAY REQUIRE A HEAT ADVISORY ON TUESDAY. SMOKE FROM THE EVANS ROAD FIRE COULD AFFECT THE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. ADDITIONAL DENSE SMOKE ADVISORIES MAY ALSO BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ104-100830- OUTER BANKS HYDE- 420 AM EDT MON JUN 9 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...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, Jun 9, 12:04 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1204 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 NCZ045>047-081-103-092100- WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-OUTER BANKS DARE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PLYMOUTH...COLUMBIA... KILL DEVIL HILLS...KITTY HAWK...NAGS HEAD...SOUTHERN SHORES 1204 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 SMOKE FROM A LARGE WILDFIRE OVER SOUTHERN TYRRELL...NORTHERN HYDE AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE REDUCED VISIBILITIES OVER PORTIONS OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS HAVE PUSHED THE PLUME SOUTH ACROSS MUCH OF HYDE COUNTY AND ADJACENT PAMLICO SOUND. VISIBILITIES WILL BE REDUCED TO 1 MILE OR LESS AT TIMES ALONG PORTIONS OF HIGHWAYS 94 AND 264...AS WELL AS OTHER LOCAL ROADS. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SOUTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PUSH THE SMOKE PLUME BACK TO THE NORTH ACROSS MAINLAND DARE COUNTY AND THE OUTER BANKS NORTH OF HATTERAS. MOTORISTS IN THESE AREAS ARE URGED TO BE ALERT FOR SUDDENLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES. SLOW DOWN...USE YOUR HEADLIGHTS...AND LEAVE PLENTY OF DISTANCE AHEAD OF YOU IN CASE A SUDDEN STOP IS NEEDED.
Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:00 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:13 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MHX | 5 hr | |
| Jun 9, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 4:36 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more | 27 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:34 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MHX | 15 hr |
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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.