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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 7, 2019Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2019, 4:14 PM EDT for Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 7, 2019, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 7, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 Aug 7, 3:55 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:55 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 2:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 3:26 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
326 PM EDT WED AUG 7 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     MARINE TSTM WIND 3 WSW JOCKEYS RIDGE STA 35.95N 75.68W
08/07/2019  M42 MPH          AMZ231             NC   MESONET

            AT WEATHERFLOW MESONET SITE.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 1:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		38 min
Aug 7, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	52 min
Aug 7, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		40 min
Aug 7, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Pamlico	51 min
Aug 7, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		53 min
Aug 7, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin, Pitt	31 min
Aug 7, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		67 min
Aug 7, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 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.