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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 11, 2026Tyrrell County, Washington County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2026, 6:48 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, Washington County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
Aug 11, 2026, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2026, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 317 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2026-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2026-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXWashington31 min
Aug 11, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX55 min
Aug 11, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXDuplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir41 min
Aug 11, 7:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX39 min

Nearby

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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.