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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 4, 2023Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2023, 4:04 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 4, 2023, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2023, 4:32 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2023-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 947 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2023-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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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 Jul 4, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 4:28 AM EDT, 11 hours 36 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 4, 3:25 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:30 PM EDTBeach Hazards StatementMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow24 hr
Jul 4, 1:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX66 min
Jul 4, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX43 min
Jul 4, 3:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX66 min
Jul 4, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare50 min
Jul 4, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX62 min
Jul 4, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX63 min
Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXOnslow38 min
Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven38 min
Jul 4, 4:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde34 min
Jul 4, 4:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX63 min
Jul 4, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX60 min
Jul 4, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare45 min
Jul 4, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX24 min
Jul 4, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX67 min
Jul 4, 4:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde30 min
Jul 4, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare29 min
Jul 4, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX52 min
Jul 4, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX47 min
Jul 4, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX32 min
Jul 4, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde24 min
Jul 4, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven24 min
Jul 4, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare23 min
Jul 4, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX37 min
Jul 4, 5:45 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX60 min
Jul 4, 5:55 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX65 min
Jul 4, 6:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell35 min
Jul 4, 6:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde66 min
Jul 4, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX32 min
Jul 4, 7:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret51 min
Jul 4, 7:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDuplin46 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.