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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 24, 2014Beaufort County, Craven County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2014, 11:33 AM EDT for Beaufort County, Craven County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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
Jul 24, 2014, 11:33 AM EDT (15:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2014, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2014-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1566 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2014-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1566 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 10:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXGreene, Martin, Pitt60 min
Jul 24, 11:46 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXGreene, Lenoir59 min
Jul 24, 12:06 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX39 min
Jul 24, 12:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare, Tyrrell60 min
Jul 24, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico55 min
Jul 24, 12:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX64 min
Jul 24, 1:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX58 min
Jul 24, 1:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare52 min
Jul 24, 1:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Jones, Pamlico43 min
Jul 24, 1:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX46 min
Jul 24, 1:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX43 min
Jul 24, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare37 min
Jul 24, 1:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret47 min
Jul 24, 2:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX51 min
Jul 24, 2:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret66 min
Jul 24, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXOnslow50 min
Jul 24, 4:03 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow3 hr
Jul 24, 4:41 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningMHXCarteret5 hr
Jul 24, 6:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXLenoir54 min
Jul 24, 6:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow84 min
Jul 24, 7:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXEdgecombe59 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.