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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 20, 20195 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 20, 2019, 6:00 AM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
Jan 20, 2019, 6:00 AM EST (11:00 UTC)
Expired
Jan 20, 2019, 6:45 AM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2019-01-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2019-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 592 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
592 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
643 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 20, 1:50 AM ESTWind AdvisoryMHXDare26 hr
Jan 20, 4:49 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt41 min
Jan 20, 4:56 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Pamlico34 min
Jan 20, 5:30 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Pamlico45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.