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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 19, 2013Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2013, 8:04 PM EDT for Duplin 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
Apr 19, 2013, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Duplin County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 19, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2013-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 111 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2013-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt65 min
Apr 19, 9:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDuplin, Onslow57 min
Apr 19, 9:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt43 min
Apr 19, 10:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Jones, Onslow64 min
Apr 19, 10:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort, Pamlico, Washington70 min
Apr 19, 11:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell and 1 more59 min
Apr 20, 12:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico81 min
Apr 20, 2:03 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare27 min
Apr 20, 9:26 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX5 days

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.