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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2013, 7:57 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 13, 2013, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2013, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 2725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Jun 13, 6:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 6:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 213 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-141815- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 213 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 308 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. HOT TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 90S AND HIGH HUMIDITY VALUES WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE BEST TIME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOOKS TO BE BETWEEN 6 AND 10 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 538 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-132300- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILLIAMSTON...ROBERSONVILLE... GREENVILLE...PLYMOUTH...COLUMBIA...SNOW HILL...HOOKERTON... WASHINGTON...RIVER ROAD...WALLACE...WARSAW...ROSE HILL... KENANSVILLE...BEULAVILLE...MAGNOLIA...KINSTON...MAYSVILLE... POLLOCKSVILLE...TRENTON...NEW BERN...HAVELOCK...VANCEBORO... ORIENTAL...ALLIANCE...BAYBORO...ARAPAHOE...MINNESOTT BEACH... VANDEMERE...STONEWALL...MOREHEAD CITY...BEAUFORT...EMERALD ISLE... NEWPORT...JACKSONVILLE...KILL DEVIL HILLS...KITTY HAWK... NAGS HEAD...SOUTHERN SHORES 538 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... AT 530 PM EDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING THE RALEIGH AREA. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE WERE RECEIVED AS THE STORMS WENT THROUGH THE TRIAD AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO IMPACT NORTHERN AREAS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AFTER 6 PM. THE STORMS WILL THEN TRACK SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE EVENING HOURS...MOVING OFF THE COAST BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. RESIDENTS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA CAN EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED TORNADO THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.
Local storm report, Jun 13, 6:57 PM EDT, 1 hour before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:16 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 7 days |
| Jun 13, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 92 min | |
| Jun 13, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 7 more | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.