Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 9:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 9:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 10:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 10:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico, Washington | 70 min |
| Apr 19, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell and 1 more | 59 min |
| Apr 20, 12:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico | 81 min |
| Apr 20, 2:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 27 min |
| Apr 20, 9:26 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 5 days |
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.