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Coastal Flood Statement 41, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

October 27, 2006Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this coastal flood statement at Oct 27, 2006, 2:29 PM EDT for Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 28, 2006, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2006, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 28, 2006, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 28, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 2006-10-27Temperature 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at Oct 27, 9:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 9:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 27, 4:29 AM EDT, 10 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
429 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 2006

AMZ130-135-150-152-154-156-158-NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-
103-104-280830-
ALBEMARLE SOUND-PAMLICO SOUND-
S OF CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT TO OREGON INLET NC OUT 20 NM-
S OF OREGON INLET TO CAPE HATTERAS NC OUT 20 NM-
S OF CAPE HATTERAS TO OCRACOKE INLET NC OUT 20 NM
INCLUDING THE MONITOR NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY-
S OF OCRACOKE INLET TO CAPE LOOKOUT NC OUT 20 NM-
S OF CAPE LOOKOUT TO N OF SURF CITY NC OUT 20 NM-MARTIN-PITT-
WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-MAINLAND HYDE-
DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
429 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE
REGION BY THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT BEFORE
ENDING EARLY SATURDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH AMOUNTS
OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. GUSTY WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH
SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS POSSIBLE ON THE
OUTER BANKS.

GALE FORCE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER ALL COASTAL WATERS BY LATER
TONIGHT INTO MIDDAY SATURDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 4:41 AM EDTWind AdvisoryMHX12 hr
Oct 27, 2:29 PM EDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMHX21 hr
Oct 27, 4:30 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningMHX17 hr
Oct 27, 4:30 PM EDTWind AdvisoryMHXDare, Hyde17 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in North Carolina, 2006Every coastal flood statement in 2006

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.