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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2026, 1:01 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 21, 2026, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2026, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 1:13 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico | 16 hr |
| Aug 21, 1:54 AM EDT | Flood Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:29 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 21, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 50 min |
| Aug 21, 12:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| Aug 21, 1:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 52 min |
| Aug 21, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 52 min | |
| Aug 21, 2:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret, Pamlico | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 46 min | |
| Aug 21, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 49 min | |
| Aug 21, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 34 min | |
| Aug 21, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 54 min |
| Aug 21, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 55 min |
| Aug 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 21, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Hyde | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 53 min | |
| Aug 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 26 min | |
| Aug 21, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 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.