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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 2, 2019Hyde County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2019, 7:34 PM EDT for Hyde County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 2, 2019, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2019, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Hyde County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 263 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 796 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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
Jun 2, 3:30 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX34 hr
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX43 min
Jun 2, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX42 min
Jun 2, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare, Tyrrell42 min
Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX63 min
Jun 2, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDare, Tyrrell49 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.