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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 20, 2014Carteret County, Craven County, Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2014, 10:28 PM EDT for Carteret County, Craven County, Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 20, 2014, 10:28 PM EDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2014, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 31 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1059 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 898 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 20, 10:16 PM EDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 10:16 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 4:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
440 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-212045-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
440 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER LOW AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES SLOWLY EAST
ACROSS A STALLED FRONT. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE
WITH PRIMARY THREAT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 6:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
643 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NCZ090-202345-
DUPLIN-
643 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS DUPLIN COUNTY THROUGH 745 PM
EDT...

AT 641 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CALYPSO...AND WEST OF WALLACE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
CALYPSO......FAISON...CALYPSO...BEAUTANCUS...ALBERTSON......KORNEGAY.
..WALLACE...KENANSVILLE...WARSAW...BEULAVILLE.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3490 7815 3510 7818 3519 7817 3518 7807
      3520 7801 3517 7796 3518 7793 3516 7790
      3518 7784 3514 7776 3502 7775 3498 7768
      3492 7765 3472 7768 3472 7799 3473 7802
      3471 7813 3474 7820
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 284DEG 16KT 3517 7816

2

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
744 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NCZ090>092-098-210030-
DUPLIN-JONES-LENOIR-ONSLOW-
744 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ONSLOW...DUPLIN...JONES AND
LENOIR COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM EDT...

AT 744 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MOSS HILL TO POTTERS HILL
TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CYPRESS CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...DEEP RUN...FALLING
CREEK...WOODINGTON...ALBERT J ELLIS AIRPORT...KINSTON...CATHERINE
LAKE.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3472 7768 3472 7790 3494 7783 3517 7787
      3518 7784 3528 7783 3534 7741 3530 7745
      3526 7743 3523 7747 3517 7737 3497 7733
      3451 7748 3450 7759
TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 265DEG 16KT 3523 7777 3495 7771
          3457 7783

2

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 8:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
839 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NCZ044-090>093-098-210115-
CRAVEN-DUPLIN-JONES-LENOIR-ONSLOW-PITT-
839 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ONSLOW...CRAVEN...DUPLIN...
JONES...LENOIR AND PITT COUNTIES THROUGH 915 PM EDT...

AT 838 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM KINSTON TO PHILLIPS CROSSROADS TO ALBERT J ELLIS
AIRPORT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3506 7753 3533 7773 3540 7737 3514 7718
      3479 7726 3471 7772
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 255DEG 16KT 3529 7757 3509 7742
          3482 7758

2

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 9:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
909 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NCZ044-091>093-095-098-210145-
CARTERET-CRAVEN-JONES-LENOIR-ONSLOW-PITT-
909 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ONSLOW...CARTERET...
CRAVEN...JONES...LENOIR AND PITT COUNTIES THROUGH 945 PM EDT...

AT 909 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM GRAINGERS TO TUSCARORA TO DEPPE...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF KINSTON TO 7 MILES WEST OF NEW
BERN TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PINEY GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3509 7728 3535 7764 3548 7729 3524 7699
      3506 7698 3506 7699 3507 7700 3504 7698
      3479 7696 3465 7737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0109Z 238DEG 11KT 3535 7746 3514 7718
          3484 7724

2

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 9:43 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
943 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NCZ092>095-210215-
CARTERET-CRAVEN-JONES-PAMLICO-
943 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS PAMLICO...CARTERET...CRAVEN
AND JONES COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 PM EDT...

AT 943 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
LONG LAKE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF HAVELOCK...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...HAVELOCK......CHERRY
POINT AIR STATION...CHERRY BRANCH......CHERRY BRANCH FERRY
TERMINAL...NORTH HARLOWE.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3470 7682 3472 7679 3472 7681 3472 7690
      3479 7717 3508 7705 3508 7701 3500 7697
      3494 7685 3495 7683 3507 7699 3504 7665
      3495 7682 3492 7676 3500 7669 3500 7668
      3469 7678
TIME...MOT...LOC 0143Z 287DEG 16KT 3492 7697

2

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:14 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	36 min
Jun 20, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	36 min
Jun 20, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	32 min
Jun 20, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	46 min
Jun 20, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min
Jun 20, 11:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	52 min
Jun 21, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Martin, Pitt	46 min
Jun 21, 1:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Martin, Pitt, Washington	44 min
Jun 21, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	39 min
Jun 21, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	42 min
Jun 21, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico	42 min
Jun 21, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones	42 min
Jun 21, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	67 min
Jun 21, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		44 min
Jun 21, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico	50 min
Jun 21, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	47 min
Jun 21, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde	40 min
Jun 21, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		33 min
Jun 21, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Onslow	34 min
Jun 21, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt	39 min
Jun 21, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	28 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.