Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT for Duplin County, Greene County, Lenoir 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 918 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
625
WUUS52 KMHX 052333
SVRMHX
NCC061-079-107-060000-
/O.NEW.KMHX.SV.W.0021.120505T2333Z-120506T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
733 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
LENOIR COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NORTHERN DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 730 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF
GOLDSBORO TO MOUNT OLIVE TO 6 MILES WEST OF WARSAW...MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WARSAW...
SHINE...LA GRANGE...
LINDELL...JASON...
SNOW HILL...ARBA...
KORNEGAY...DAWSON...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
LARGE HAIL WILL DAMAGE VEHICLES...WINDOWS AND SOME ROOFS. SEVERE
WINDS WILL BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND CAN DAMAGE MOBILE
HOMES AND OTHER BUILDINGS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING.
SEEK SHELTER INDOORS NOW AND STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS. MANY
LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL OCCUR WELL AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY
WINDS. IF YOU CANNOT SEEK SHELTER INDOORS TAKE COVER IN A VEHICLE.
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING...1...8 0 0...8 8 9...6 8 8 9.... WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
&&
LAT...LON 3519 7813 3520 7802 3515 7790 3518 7784
3534 7783 3538 7781 3542 7783 3557 7783
3565 7771 3547 7749 3531 7744 3524 7748
3524 7752 3519 7751 3508 7759 3501 7773
3497 7768 3490 7775 3493 7816 3511 7818
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 274DEG 27KT 3557 7798 3544 7792
3530 7793 3513 7804 3501 7818
$$
131 follow-up statement
768
WWUS52 KMHX 052351
SVSMHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
751 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2012
NCC061-079-107-060000-
/O.CON.KMHX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120506T0000Z/
GREENE NC-LENOIR NC-DUPLIN NC-
751 PM EDT SAT MAY 5 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR NORTHERN DUPLIN...WESTERN LENOIR AND GREENE COUNTIES...
AT 748 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SHINE TO JASON TO LA GRANGE TO ALBERTSON
TO WARSAW...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GOLDSBORO TO LA GRANGE TO 11 MILES EAST OF MOUNT OLIVE TO WARSAW...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARDS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... INSTITUTE...
KENANSVILLE...ARBA...MOSS HILL...CASTORIA...FALLING CREEK...
WOODINGTON...MAURY...LIZZIE...KORNEGAY...DEEP RUN...DAWSON...SNOW
HILL...PINK HILL...KINSTON AND HOOKERTON.
SEVERE WINDS WILL BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND CAN DAMAGE
MOBILE HOMES AND OTHER BUILDINGS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO...PLEASE CALL IN YOUR REPORTS OF PENNY OR
LARGER SIZED HAIL...AS WELL AS WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES OR LARGE
LIMBS DOWNED BY CALLING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT...
1...8 0 0...8 8 9...6 8 8 9.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3516 7798 3518 7797 3515 7791 3518 7784
3534 7783 3538 7781 3542 7783 3557 7783
3558 7781 3555 7759 3554 7758 3535 7755
3523 7759 3514 7764 3491 7783 3494 7816
3497 7816
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 274DEG 27KT 3549 7778 3537 7775
3525 7780 3515 7786 3501 7801
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 8:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 56 min |
| May 5, 2:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 59 min |
| May 5, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 48 min | |
| May 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico | 50 min |
| May 5, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 32 min | |
| May 5, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| May 5, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 67 min |
| May 5, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico | 54 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.