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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 28, 20214 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2021, 5:37 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2021, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2021, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 5:46 PM EDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 50	3 S Bayview, NC	43 KNOT WIND GUST MEASURED ON A PERSONAL WEATHER STATION ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF THE PAMLICO RIVER.
Jul 28, 6:05 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Se South Creek, NC	TREE/LARGE LIMBS DOWN ON POWER LINES REPORTED BY TIDELAND EMC. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
Jul 28, 6:24 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 E Ernul, NC	TREE/LARGE LIMBS DOWN ON POWER LINES REPORTED BY TIDELAND EMC. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 28, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 2446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted.

916 
WUUS52 KMHX 282137
SVRMHX
NCC013-049-095-137-282230-
/O.NEW.KMHX.SV.W.0028.210728T2137Z-210728T2230Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
537 PM EDT Wed Jul 28 2021

The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Central Craven County in eastern North Carolina...
  West central Hyde County in eastern North Carolina...
  Southern Beaufort County in eastern North Carolina...
  Pamlico County in eastern North Carolina...

* Until 630 PM EDT.

* At 536 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Goose Creek State Park to near Winsteadville to
  near Rose Bay, moving south at 30 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  New Bern, Washington, River Road, James City, Ransomville, Blounts
  Creek, Pamlico Beach, Askins, Cayton, Lowland, Florence, Janeiro,
  Edward, Grantsboro, Royal, Bonnerton, Cox Crossroads, Bayview,
  Olympia and Whortonsville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Please send your reports of hail and/or wind damage, including trees
or large limbs downed, by calling the National Weather Service office
in Newport at 1-800-889-6889.

&&

LAT...LON 3510 7714 3553 7702 3550 7656 3549 7657
      3546 7655 3545 7657 3542 7654 3541 7654
      3540 7651 3532 7643 3529 7629 3507 7638
      3505 7644 3508 7647 3506 7648 3506 7647
      3505 7645 3504 7648 3494 7680
TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 009DEG 25KT 3546 7695 3543 7663 3551 7634 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

SGK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		92 min
Jul 28, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	45 min
Jul 28, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	49 min
Jul 28, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	63 min
Jul 28, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	42 min
Jul 28, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Pitt	38 min
Jul 28, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	42 min
Jul 28, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	65 min
Jul 28, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		62 min
Jul 28, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Pitt	48 min
Jul 28, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt	58 min
Jul 28, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		95 min
Jul 28, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 2 more	66 min
Jul 28, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin, Onslow	49 min
Jul 28, 7:48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.