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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 4, 20239 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 4, 2023, 3:09 PM EST for 9 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
Jan 4, 2023, 3:09 PM EST (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 PM EST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2023-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 215 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2023-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 263 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 3:33 AM ESTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryMHX6 hr
Jan 4, 12:30 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMHX90 min
Jan 4, 1:09 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDuplin, Jones, Lenoir51 min
Jan 4, 1:25 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMHX79 min
Jan 4, 1:51 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPitt39 min
Jan 4, 1:54 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Greene, Jones, Pitt36 min
Jan 4, 2:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXGreene, Martin, Pitt43 min
Jan 4, 2:26 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort, Craven, Pamlico34 min
Jan 4, 2:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Martin, Pamlico and 2 more44 min
Jan 4, 2:38 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMHX57 min
Jan 4, 2:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin, Pitt, Washington22 min
Jan 4, 2:55 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMHX40 min
Jan 4, 3:02 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMHX67 min

Nearby

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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.