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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2022, 5:15 PM EDT for Beaufort County, Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
- May 16, 2022, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 16, 4:25 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 4:25 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 610 AM EDT Mon May 16 2022 NCZ203-171015- Northern Outer Banks- 610 AM EDT Mon May 16 2022 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY... ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... 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. Moderate Rip Current Risk. Coastal Flood Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Coastal Flood Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ205-171015- Hatteras Island- 610 AM EDT Mon May 16 2022 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY... ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... 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. Beach Hazards Statement. Moderate Rip Current Risk. Coastal Flood Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Coastal Flood Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ195-196-199-204-171015- West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- 610 AM EDT Mon May 16 2022 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT TUESDAY... ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... 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. Beach Hazards Statement. Coastal Flood Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Coastal Flood Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193-194-198-171015- Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort- Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven- Southern Craven-Inland Onslow- 610 AM EDT Mon May 16 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A couple strong to marginally severe thunderstorms are possible this evening, mainly north of Highway 264. The main threat will be large hail and damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 43 min |
| May 16, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 44 min |
| May 16, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Washington | 35 min |
| May 16, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Washington | 23 min |
| May 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 min | |
| May 16, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 39 min |
| May 16, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 57 min | |
| May 16, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| May 16, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell | 23 min |
| May 16, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 48 min |
| May 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| May 16, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pitt | 53 min |
| May 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Washington | 55 min |
| May 16, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde, Washington | 50 min |
| May 16, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico | 38 min |
| May 16, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 55 min | |
| May 16, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico | 32 min |
| May 16, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell | 57 min |
| May 16, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 57 min | |
| May 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 58 min |
| May 16, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt | 48 min |
| May 16, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min | |
| May 16, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 36 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.