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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2025, 2:45 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 4, 2025, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2025, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
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 4, 10:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 10:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 4:28 AM EDT, 10 hours 17 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 428 AM EDT Sun May 4 2025 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193-194-198-203-050830- Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort- Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven- Southern Craven-Inland Onslow-Northern Outer Banks- 428 AM EDT Sun May 4 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Strong to low end severe thunderstorms are possible today. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Strong to low end severe thunderstorms are possible Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ205-050830- Hatteras Island- 428 AM EDT Sun May 4 2025 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ195-196-199-204-050830- West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- 428 AM EDT Sun May 4 2025 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 4, 8:54 AM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 4:29 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 15 hr |
| May 4, 5:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 37 min |
| May 4, 6:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 37 min | |
| May 4, 6:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 26 min |
| May 4, 7:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 37 min |
| May 4, 8:12 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| May 4, 8:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Hyde | 51 min |
| May 4, 9:26 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 49 min | |
| May 4, 9:37 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 35 min | |
| May 4, 10:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 39 min | |
| May 4, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 47 min |
| May 4, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pitt | 28 min |
| May 4, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min | |
| May 4, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin | 46 min |
| May 4, 7:39 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 24 hr |
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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.