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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 28, 2021Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2021, 4:06 PM EDT for Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2021, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 28, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

467 
WUUS52 KMHX 282006
SVRMHX
NCC117-147-282045-
/O.NEW.KMHX.SV.W.0009.210328T2006Z-210328T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
406 PM EDT Sun Mar 28 2021

The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Pitt County in eastern North Carolina...
  Martin County in eastern North Carolina...

* Until 445 PM EDT.

* At 406 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Tarboro,
  moving east at 50 mph.

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

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Williamston, Bethel, Robersonville, Gold Point, Jamesville,
  Hamilton, Oak City, Parmele, Everetts, Hassell and Beargrass.

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 3601 7721 3593 7719 3594 7713 3593 7712
      3593 7709 3594 7705 3589 7702 3589 7704
      3586 7704 3586 7701 3590 7692 3587 7690
      3573 7688 3575 7754 3581 7742 3583 7741
      3582 7735 3591 7734 3600 7741 3607 7733
TIME...MOT...LOC 2006Z 263DEG 42KT 3585 7751 

HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

TL

1 follow-up statement

491 
WWUS52 KMHX 282025
SVSMHX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
425 PM EDT Sun Mar 28 2021

NCC147-282034-
/O.CAN.KMHX.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-210328T2045Z/
Pitt NC-
425 PM EDT Sun Mar 28 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN PITT COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
    
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of 
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM EDT for
eastern North Carolina.

LAT...LON 3606 7732 3601 7721 3593 7719 3594 7713
      3593 7712 3593 7709 3594 7705 3589 7703
      3587 7705 3586 7703 3586 7701 3590 7692
      3586 7690 3584 7690 3581 7734 3582 7735
      3591 7734 3600 7741 3607 7733
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 256DEG 45KT 3594 7724 

$$

NCC117-282045-
/O.CON.KMHX.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-210328T2045Z/
Martin NC-
425 PM EDT Sun Mar 28 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT
FOR NORTHERN MARTIN COUNTY...

At 424 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles north of
Robersonville, or 11 miles northwest of Williamston, moving east at
50 mph.

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

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Williamston, Robersonville, Gold Point, Hamilton, Oak City, Parmele,
Everetts and Hassell.

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 3606 7732 3601 7721 3593 7719 3594 7713
      3593 7712 3593 7709 3594 7705 3589 7703
      3587 7705 3586 7703 3586 7701 3590 7692
      3586 7690 3584 7690 3581 7734 3582 7735
      3591 7734 3600 7741 3607 7733
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 256DEG 45KT 3594 7724 

HAIL...0.88IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

TL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	28 min
Mar 27, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		92 min
Mar 27, 9:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico	23 min
Mar 28, 3:53 AM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MHX		4 hr
Mar 28, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	14 min
Mar 28, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Pitt	42 min
Mar 28, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	46 min
Mar 28, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		38 min
Mar 28, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Washington	42 min
Mar 28, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico	43 min
Mar 28, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell, Washington	26 min
Mar 28, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		68 min
Mar 28, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	19 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.