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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 24, 2010Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Jan 24, 2010, 4:15 AM EST for Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 24, 2010, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2010, 4:15 AM EST (09:15 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2010, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 25, 2010, 12:00 PM EST
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:21 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 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 359 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 00:00Z on 2010-01-24Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2010-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 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 24, 3:33 AM ESTHigh Surf AdvisoryMHX41 hr
Jan 24, 3:47 AM ESTGale WarningMHX51 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in North Carolina, 2010Every wind advisory in 2010

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.