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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2018, 2:33 PM EDT for Carteret County, Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 12, 2018, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2018, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 Jul 11, 7:00 PM EDT, 19 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 7:00 PM EDT, 19 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 3:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 62 min | |
| Jul 12, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 2:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Craven | 57 min |
| Jul 12, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 95 min | |
| Jul 12, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min | |
| Jul 12, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 37 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.