Numerous thunderstorms developed over eastern North Carolina during the afternoon and evening as an upper level disturbance moved east across the region.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MHX wrote it up.
Numerous thunderstorms developed over eastern North Carolina during the afternoon and evening as an upper level disturbance moved east across the region.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 10, 10:30 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1130 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007
.SYNOPSIS...
A WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE PIEDMONT OF
NORTH CAROLINA WITH HIGH PRESSURE OFFSHORE THROUGH MID WEEK. A
COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST FRIDAY AND
BECOME STATIONARY AND SLOWLY DISSIPATE.
&&
.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TODAY/...
THE MAIN PROBLEM THIS MORNING ARE THE LINGERING CLOUDS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE LOW AND RAIN THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA LATE LAST NIGHT
AND EARLY THIS MORNING. FOR THE MOST PART, THE RAIN HAS MOVED AWAY
FROM THE AREA. LATEST GUIDANCE HAS HIGHS IN AROUND 90 INSTEAD OF
CURRENT FORECAST OF MID 90S. ARW IS SHOWING CLOUDS CONTINUING TO
LINGER SO I WILL LIKELY LOWER TEMPS A CATEGORY OR SO FOR THIS
AFTERNOON. NO OTHER CHANGES NEED ATTM.
&&
.SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/...
WARM AND MUGGY AGAIN TONIGHT WITH INCREASED STABILITY AS VORT MAX
MOVES AWAY FROM THE AREA. WILL CONTINUE CHC POPS FOR COASTAL AREA
TONIGHT...THEN SLGT CHC POPS FOR THE ENTIRE CWA WED AND WED NIGHT.
A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON THU HELPING TO
INCREASE DYNAMICS FOR SCT TSTM DVPLMNT. EXPECT HOT AND HUMID
SUMMER CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE WED WITH HEAT INDICIES AGAIN
APPROACHING DANGEROUS LEVELS. SLIGHTLY LESS HUMID CONDITIONS
EXPECTED THU.
&&
.LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/...
NO CHANGES MADE TO EXTENDED GRIDS. KEPT MAINLY CHC POPS GOING
GIVEN UNCERTAINTY ON EXACTLY WHERE FRONT WILL STALL THIS WEEKEND.
TEMPS WILL REMAIN NEAR NORMAL WITH UPPER 80S AROUND 90 INLAND TO
MID 80S BEACHES. WILL REMAIN MUGGY WITH LOWS MAINLY 70 TO 75.
&&
.AVIATION /07Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
MORNING IFR/MVFR LOW CLOUDS HAVE BEEN BURNING OFF DURING THE PAST
HOUR AND EXPECT MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER
OF THE DAY...EXCEPT IN AND NEAR SCT CONVECTION.
GENERALLY VFR FOR MID THROUGH LATE WEEK.
&&
.MARINE...
THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING EAST OF SRN WATERS LATE THIS MORNING AND
EXPECT MAINLY ISOLATED COVERAGE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WINDS AROUND
DIAMOND BUOY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE STRONGER...AROUND 20 KT...WITH
CONVECTION IN THE VICINITY. EXPECT SWLY WINDS TO BECOME 15-20 KT
ACROSS MOST OF THE SRN WATERS DURING THE AFTERNOON AS GRDNT TIGHTENS
WITH TRF TO THE W. WITH SPEEDS IN 15 TO 20 KT RANGE EXPECT SEAS TO
REACH SCA RANGE CENTRAL WTRS TONIGHT. WINDS INCREASE A BIT MORE WED
INTO THU AS GRDNT TIGHTENS AHEAD OF APPROACHING FRONT. EXTENDED SCA
TO SRN WTRS WED AND CONT SCA FOR ALL CSTL WTRS S OF OREGON INLET
INTO THU NIGHT AS SW WINDS OF 15 TO 25 KTS WILL KEEP SEAS AOA 6 FT
20 MILES OUT. FRONT DROPS INTO THE NRN WTRS FRI WITH WINDS/SEAS
DECREASING. FRONT LIFTS BACK N ON SAT AND COULD SEE SW FLOW INCREASE
TO NEAR SCA AGAIN SAT BUT FOR NOW KEPT BELOW.
FOR RIP CURRENTS KEPT LOW RISK ALL WTRS...HOWEVER WILL BE VERY
CLOSE TO MODERATE RISK S FACING BEACHES AS WINDS INCREASE THIS
AFTN. LACK OF SWELL KEEPS THREAT IN LOW RANGE...HOWEVER WILL HAVE TO
WATCH CLOSELY IF WINDS PICK UP A BIT MORE THAN EXPECTED.
&&
.MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NC...NONE.
MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 2 AM EDT
FRIDAY FOR AMZ152-154-156.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 8 AM WEDNESDAY TO 2 AM EDT FRIDAY
FOR AMZ158.
&&
TK/SKHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 334 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 NCZ029-044-045-079-080-090>093-098-110745- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-GREENE-BEAUFORT-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN- ONSLOW- 334 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY HEAT INDICIES NEAR 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NCZ046-047-081-094-095-103-104-110745- TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-PAMLICO-CARTERET- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 334 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:06 UTC.
1 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Brown Boulavard, Keith Drive, and Park Lane roads were closed due to flooding.
Four inches of rain was measured in Havelock.
A tobacco barn was damaged in western Greene County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 32132, 32134, 32133.