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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 9, 2023Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2023, 5:07 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 9, 2023, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2023, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Jul 9, 12:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 9, 5:05 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 5:05 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 4:55 AM EDT, 12 hours 12 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
455 AM EDT Sun Jul 9 2023

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193>196-198-199-203>205-100900-
Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort-
Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven-
Southern Craven-West Carteret-East Carteret-Inland Onslow-
Coastal Onslow-Northern Outer Banks-Ocracoke Island-Hatteras Island-
455 AM EDT Sun Jul 9 2023

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS
EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Severe thunderstorms are forecast to impact the area from west to
east this afternoon into tonight, with the greatest potential for
strong damaging wind gusts and the possibility of hail. Moderate to
locally heavy rainfall may lead to flooding.

   Flood Watch.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms with gusty winds and hail
are possible Monday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:46 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:55 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:59 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:00 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:02 PM EDT, 5 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
Jul 8, 10:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Edgecombe	44 min
Jul 9, 3:46 AM EDT	Flood Watch	MHX	Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more	15 hr
Jul 9, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	40 min
Jul 9, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		44 min
Jul 9, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt	53 min
Jul 9, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Jones, Onslow	51 min
Jul 9, 3:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Duplin	3 hr
Jul 9, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	43 min
Jul 9, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Martin, Pitt	39 min
Jul 9, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min
Jul 9, 4:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Onslow	112 min
Jul 9, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Onslow	27 min
Jul 9, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		24 min
Jul 9, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		65 min
Jul 9, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	45 min
Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	29 min
Jul 9, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Washington	2 hr
Jul 9, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		67 min
Jul 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		96 min
Jul 9, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	45 min
Jul 9, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min
Jul 9, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		59 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.