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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 27, 20244 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 27, 2024, 1:20 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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: Sep 27, 2024, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2024, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 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
Sep 27, 8:02 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 8.1

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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 Sep 27, 10:16 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 10:16 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 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
Sep 26, 8:23 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow	24 hr
Sep 27, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin and 1 more	63 min
Sep 27, 2:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.