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Hurricane Warning 1007, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 1, 20106 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this hurricane warning at Sep 1, 2010, 11:23 AM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 1, 2010, 11:23 AM EDT (15:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT
In force
48 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 274 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2010-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2010-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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
Sep 1, 11:23 AM EDTHurricane WarningMHX48 hr
Sep 1, 11:23 AM EDTTropical Storm WarningMHX51 hr
Sep 1, 6:59 PM EDTInland Tropical Storm WarningMHXDuplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.