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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2022, 10:40 AM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 65 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
- Mar 12, 2022, 10:40 AM EST (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2022, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Pamlico County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 7:37 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 310 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 427 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Mar 12, 10:01 AM EST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 10:01 AM EST, 39 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 NCZ029-044-079-090-091-131300- Martin-Pitt-Greene-Duplin-Lenoir- 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 ...TORNADO WATCH 44 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. Overnight lows will drop into the low 20s with wind chills in the teens early Sunday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ204-205-131300- Ocracoke Island-Hatteras Island- 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST SUNDAY... ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... ...TORNADO WATCH 44 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Tornado Watch. High Surf Advisory. Coastal Flood Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ203-131300- Northern Outer Banks- 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST SUNDAY... ...TORNADO WATCH 44 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Tornado Watch. Coastal Flood Advisory. Overnight lows will drop into the low 20s with wind chills in the teens early Sunday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ195-196-131300- West Carteret-East Carteret- 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... ...TORNADO WATCH 44 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Tornado Watch. High Surf Advisory. Overnight lows will drop into the low 20s with wind chills in the teens early Sunday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ045>047-080-081-092-094-193-194-198-131300- Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Beaufort-Mainland Hyde-Jones- Pamlico-Northern Craven-Southern Craven-Inland Onslow- 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...TORNADO WATCH 44 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. Wind Advisory. Overnight lows will drop into the low 20s with wind chills in the teens early Sunday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ199-131300- Coastal Onslow- 746 AM EST Sat Mar 12 2022 ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...TORNADO WATCH 44 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. High Surf Advisory. Wind Advisory. Overnight lows will drop into the low 20s with wind chills in the teens early Sunday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 12, 8:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir | 55 min |
| Mar 12, 8:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 8:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 28 min |
| Mar 12, 9:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 2 more | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 9:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Martin, Pitt | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 9:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell, Washington | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 9:31 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min | |
| Mar 12, 9:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Hyde and 5 more | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 9:46 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 29 min | |
| Mar 12, 9:55 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Mar 12, 10:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 16 min | |
| Mar 12, 1:51 PM EST | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde | 8 hr |
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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.