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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2024, 7:13 PM EDT for Carteret County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
- May 15, 2024, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2024, 8:01 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carteret County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 350 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 15, 7:08 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 7:08 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 414 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 NCZ205-160815- Hatteras Island- 414 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Beach Hazards Statement. Moderate Rip Current Risk. There is a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon. The primary hazards are damaging winds and hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ203-160815- Northern Outer Banks- 414 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Moderate Rip Current Risk. There is a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon. The primary hazards are damaging winds and hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193-194-198-160815- Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort- Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven- Southern Craven-Inland Onslow- 414 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. There is a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon. The primary hazards are damaging winds and hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ195-196-199-204-160815- West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- 414 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Beach Hazards Statement. There is a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon. The primary hazards are damaging winds and hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 15, 6:25 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:02 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 24 hr |
| May 14, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 37 min |
| May 14, 9:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Jones, Washington | 39 min |
| May 15, 12:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones | 51 min |
| May 15, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 36 min | |
| May 15, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 36 min |
| May 15, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| May 15, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 41 min |
| May 15, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min | |
| May 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 54 min |
| May 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 39 min |
| May 15, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 66 min | |
| May 15, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 64 min |
| May 15, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico | 46 min |
| May 15, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 min | |
| May 15, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| May 15, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 30 min |
| May 15, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| May 15, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 95 min |
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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.