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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2009, 1:27 PM EDT for Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 27, 2009, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2009, 1:54 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Beaufort County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 2335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 Jul 27, 10:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 10:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 3:31 AM EDT, 9 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 331 AM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-280730- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- 331 AM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS IS LOW...HOWEVER ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. .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. NCZ095-098-103-104-280730- CARTERET-ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 331 AM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 ...MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING FROM RODANTHE SOUTH... 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. MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS FROM RODANTHE SOUTH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS IS LOW...HOWEVER ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. .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, Jul 27, 12:44 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 1244 PM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 NCZ090-092-098-271745- DUPLIN NC-JONES NC-ONSLOW NC- 1244 PM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO FAR SOUTHERN ONSLOW COUNTY... AT 1243 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF NEW RIVER STATION...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALLACE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR RURAL WESTERN ONSLOW COUNTY AT 100 PM EDT. RURAL WESTERN JONES COUNTY AT 150 PM EDT. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH 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. IF THIS STORM BECOMES STRONGER A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. WAMSLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 1:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 124 PM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 NCZ098-271830- ONSLOW- 124 PM EDT MON JUL 27 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ONSLOW COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM EDT... AT 124 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HALF MOON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF NEW RIVER AIR STATION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CATHERINE LAKE AT 215 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE HAWS RUN. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT MONDAY 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. 3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 3:52 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 16 hr | |
| Jul 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 4 days |
Nearby
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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.