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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 644

June 29, 200824 counties in North Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2008, 4:57 PM EDT for 24 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2008, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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.

Warnings issued inside it

4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin, Onslow58 min
Jun 29, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXJones, Onslow49 min
Jun 29, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven, Onslow, Pamlico54 min
Jun 29, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Pamlico56 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 12:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnson, Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee and 8 more56 min
Jun 29, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlamance, Alexander, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Caswell and 45 more7 hr
Jun 29, 4:46 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Chatham, Columbus and 29 more59 min
Jun 29, 5:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.