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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 18, 2008Greene County, Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this winter storm warning at Jan 18, 2008, 3:49 PM EST for Greene County, Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 19, 2008, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 4 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
Jan 18, 2008, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 19, 2008, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 19, 2008, 8:19 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Greene County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 232 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2008-01-18Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2008-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -150 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 3:49 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchMHXBeaufort, Lenoir, Tyrrell, Washington11 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2008Every winter storm warning in 2008

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.