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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 5, 20264 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 3:40 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 5, 2026, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 2837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 5, 5:51 AM EDT, 9 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 5:51 AM EDT, 9 hours 49 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 4, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	46 min
Sep 4, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pitt	47 min
Sep 4, 9:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Martin, Washington	2 hr
Sep 4, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pitt	50 min
Sep 4, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		34 min
Sep 5, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		47 min
Sep 5, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		22 min
Sep 5, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		50 min
Sep 5, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven	63 min
Sep 5, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene, Pitt	9 min
Sep 5, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		66 min
Sep 5, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	46 min
Sep 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	56 min
Sep 5, 4:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Carteret, Craven	5 hr
Sep 5, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	42 min
Sep 5, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt	50 min
Sep 5, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	62 min
Sep 5, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		59 min
Sep 5, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	29 min
Sep 5, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Craven	3 hr
Sep 5, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Carteret	3 hr
Sep 5, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico	65 min
Sep 5, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		64 min
Sep 5, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		46 min
Sep 5, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	57 min
Sep 5, 5:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Carteret	65 min
Sep 5, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	34 min
Sep 5, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		55 min
Sep 5, 6:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Duplin	3 hr
Sep 5, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	27 min
Sep 5, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		55 min
Sep 5, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde	39 min
Sep 5, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	45 min
Sep 5, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	57 min
Sep 5, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		39 min
Sep 5, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		83 min
Sep 5, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Onslow	50 min
Sep 5, 6:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Carteret	116 min
Sep 5, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		89 min
Sep 5, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	37 min
Sep 5, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		56 min
Sep 5, 7:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Onslow	3 hr
Sep 5, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	45 min
Sep 5, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Washington	43 min
Sep 5, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	42 min
Sep 5, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Washington	23 min
Sep 5, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		39 min
Sep 5, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		36 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.