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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 11, 1996Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 1996, 9:45 AM EDT for Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 11, 1996, 9:45 AM EDT (13:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 1996, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1189 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 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
1189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.8

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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.