Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2009, 2:38 PM EDT for Craven County, Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 5, 2009, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2009, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Craven County, NC, Pamlico County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 1583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 Aug 5, 1:49 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:49 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 3:03 AM EDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 303 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2009 NCZ095-103-104-060815- CARTERET-OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 303 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2009 ...MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 DEGREES IN MANY AREAS. THOSE WHO ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL BE AFFECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TODAY. 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. DANGEROUS HEAT CONDITIONS WILL RETURN THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND AND OVER THE UPCOMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ029-044-045-079-080-090>094-098-060815- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-GREENE-BEAUFORT-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN- PAMLICO-ONSLOW- 303 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 DEGREES IN MANY AREAS. THOSE WHO ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL BE AFFECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. DANGEROUS HEAT CONDITIONS WILL RETURN THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND AND OVER THE UPCOMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ046-047-081-060815- TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE- 303 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2009 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE FROM 100 TO 107 DEGREES IN MANY AREAS IN TYRRELL...DARE...AND HYDE COUNTIES. THOSE WHO ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL BE AFFECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TODAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. DANGEROUS HEAT CONDITIONS WILL RETURN THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND AND OVER THE UPCOMING WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:33 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 233 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2009 NCZ092>094-051930- JONES-PAMLICO-CRAVEN- 233 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CRAVEN...PAMLICO AND JONES COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM EDT... AT 233 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER JAMES CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR JAMES CITY AT 245 PM EDT...RIVERDALE AT 250 PM EDT...CROATAN AT 255 PM EDT...FAIRFIELD HARBOR AT 300 PM EDT...FAIRFIELD HARBOR AT 305 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE NEW BERN...RIVER BEND...TRENT WOODS...CATFISH LAKE...GRANTSBORO...JANEIRO...OLYMPIA...RHEMS...FOREST...NEUSE FOREST...BRICES CREEK...REELSBORO AND SILVER HILL. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL 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. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES AND INJURIES OCCUR IN OPEN AREAS OR UNDER TREES. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING OR CAR. DO NOT TAKE SHELTER IN SMALL SHEDS...UNDER ISOLATED TREES...OR IN CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. 8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.