Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 2009, 8:19 PM EDT for Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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
- Sep 28, 2009, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2009, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
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 Sep 28, 4:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 4:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 28, 3:15 AM EDT, 17 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 315 AM EDT MON SEP 28 2009 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-290800- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- 315 AM EDT MON SEP 28 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 30 MPH. .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. NCZ104-290800- OUTER BANKS HYDE- 315 AM EDT MON SEP 28 2009 ...HIGH 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. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HIGH THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS. ALSO...A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 30 MPH. .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. NCZ095-098-290800- CARTERET-ONSLOW- 315 AM EDT MON SEP 28 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. 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. ALSO...A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 30 MPH. .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. NCZ103-290800- OUTER BANKS DARE- 315 AM EDT MON SEP 28 2009 ...HIGH THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS... ...MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING NORTH OF CAPE HATTERAS... 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 NORTH OF CAPE HATTERAS. HIGH THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS. ALSO...A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 30 MPH. .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, Sep 28, 8:00 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 800 PM EDT MON SEP 28 2009 NCZ029-044-079-080-290100- GREENE-MARTIN-PITT-BEAUFORT- 800 PM EDT MON SEP 28 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BEAUFORT...PITT...MARTIN AND GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM EDT... AT 800 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 38 MILES NORTH OF FARMVILLE TO 36 MILES WEST OF FARMVILLE...OR FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF ROCKY MOUNT TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR FARMVILLE AT 845 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE GREENVILLE AND WILLIAMSTON. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 9:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Sep 28, 9:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 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.