Alert archive / North Carolina / Excessive Heat Warnings in 2007
Excessive Heat Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 9, 2007, 2:51 PM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 10, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Aug 9, 2007, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 3991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Aug 9, 10:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 10:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 3:43 AM EDT, 11 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 343 AM EDT THU AUG 9 2007 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-100745- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 343 AM EDT THU AUG 9 2007 ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING. THERE IS A MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS SOUTH OF CAPE LOOKOUT TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MOST LIKELY THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 4:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Greene | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 57 min | |
| Aug 9, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Aug 9, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 47 min |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Warnings in North Carolina, 2007Every excessive heat warning in 2007
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.