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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 2, 2010Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Jan 2, 2010, 3:08 AM EST for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 2, 2010, 3:08 AM EST (08:08 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2010, 3:20 AM EST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 368 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2010-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2010-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-66 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 2, 3:26 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMHX30 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.