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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 27, 2023Carteret County, Craven County, Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2023, 3:37 PM EDT for Carteret County, Craven County, Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 27, 2023, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2023, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 343 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 27, 3:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:36 AM EDT, 10 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:22 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 9:01 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde	23 hr
Jun 26, 11:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	82 min
Jun 26, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene, Pitt	64 min
Jun 27, 12:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Martin and 2 more	62 min
Jun 27, 12:48 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min
Jun 27, 1:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Tyrrell and 1 more	60 min
Jun 27, 1:08 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		67 min
Jun 27, 1:15 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Jun 27, 1:17 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		58 min
Jun 27, 1:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	54 min
Jun 27, 1:51 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		54 min
Jun 27, 1:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MHX	Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	78 min
Jun 27, 2:12 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		2 hr
Jun 27, 2:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		61 min
Jun 27, 2:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde	61 min
Jun 27, 3:11 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		64 min
Jun 27, 3:57 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		48 min
Jun 27, 4:17 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		58 min
Jun 27, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		53 min
Jun 27, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	38 min
Jun 27, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		62 min
Jun 27, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		62 min
Jun 27, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	38 min
Jun 27, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		63 min
Jun 27, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		63 min
Jun 27, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		66 min
Jun 27, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare, Tyrrell	72 min
Jun 27, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		84 min
Jun 27, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		63 min
Jun 27, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell	53 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		85 min
Jun 27, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		84 min
Jun 27, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	28 min
Jun 27, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	23 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.