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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 29, 2010Craven County, Jones County, Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2010, 6:07 PM EDT for Craven County, Jones County, Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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
Jun 29, 2010, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2010, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 38 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2010-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1370 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2010-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt40 min
Jun 29, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt, Washington62 min
Jun 29, 3:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX59 min
Jun 29, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington59 min
Jun 29, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Pamlico66 min
Jun 29, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven, Jones, Lenoir24 min
Jun 29, 4:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX63 min
Jun 29, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX56 min
Jun 29, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt46 min
Jun 29, 6:07 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXCraven, Pamlico83 min
Jun 29, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow46 min
Jun 29, 6:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX38 min
Jun 29, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX51 min
Jun 29, 7:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXJones, Onslow89 min

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.