Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 231
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2014, 1:21 PM EDT for 27 counties in North Carolina; Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2014, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 8:06 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Pamlico, Pitt | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Pamlico | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 890 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 24 more | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 28 more | 57 min |
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.