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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 29, 2009Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2009, 3:34 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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: May 29, 2009, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2009, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 May 29, 10:12 AM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 10:12 AM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 4:03 AM EDT, 11 hours 31 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
403 AM EDT FRI MAY 29 2009

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-300815-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
403 AM EDT FRI MAY 29 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG
AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF
THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 1:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
104 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 2009

NCZ093-095-291800-
CRAVEN-CARTERET-
104 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARTERET AND CRAVEN COUNTIES
UNTIL 200 PM EDT...

AT 103 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL
CARTERET COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF HAVELOCK...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR PINEY ISLAND AT 145 PM
EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE MERRIMON
AND SOUTH RIVER.

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. 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.

CULLEN

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:58 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
258 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 2009

NCZ094-291945-
PAMLICO-
258 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PAMLICO COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM
EDT...

AT 258 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL PAMLICO
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF JAMES CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR FLORENCE...AND...
VANDEMERE AT 305 PM EDT...MESIC AT 310 PM EDT...HOBUCKEN AT 325 PM
EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE LOWLAND...
MARIBEL...MERRITT...PAMLICO AND WHORTONSVILLE.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FRIDAY 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.

24

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	43 min
May 29, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	46 min
May 29, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin, Pitt	47 min
May 29, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	27 min
May 29, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	45 min

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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.