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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 7, 2023Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2023, 7:37 PM EDT for Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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 7, 2023, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 2023-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 427 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 2023-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 8:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXLenoir35 min
Jul 6, 8:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXLenoir28 min
Jul 7, 3:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXMartin, Pitt53 min
Jul 7, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXGreene, Martin, Pitt32 min
Jul 7, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX91 min
Jul 7, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXLenoir27 min
Jul 7, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell26 min
Jul 7, 6:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPamlico24 min
Jul 7, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXLenoir28 min
Jul 7, 6:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX56 min
Jul 7, 6:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX64 min
Jul 7, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCraven, Jones, Pamlico30 min
Jul 7, 6:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX59 min
Jul 7, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell25 min
Jul 7, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXLenoir45 min
Jul 7, 7:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPamlico52 min
Jul 7, 7:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven27 min
Jul 7, 7:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX64 min
Jul 7, 7:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDuplin24 min
Jul 7, 7:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXJones31 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.