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Flood Watch 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

November 10, 200912 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flood watch at Nov 10, 2009, 2:06 PM EST for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 11, 2009, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2009, 2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 11, 2009, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 12, 2009, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity: None

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 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Nov 10, 9:42 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 10, 9:42 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 3:09 AM EST	Gale Warning	MHX		67 hr
Nov 10, 3:09 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		4 hr
Nov 10, 3:28 PM EST	Coastal Flood Watch	MHX	Pamlico	12 hr
Nov 10, 3:28 PM EST	Coastal Flood Statement	MHX		12 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.