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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 4:21 PM EDT for Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 9 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, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 5, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 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
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, 10 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 5:51 AM EDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 5, 4:06 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Pamlico | 50 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, 4:24 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.