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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 9, 201012 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Feb 9, 2010, 3:24 PM EST for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 10, 2010, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 9, 2010, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2010, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 10, 2010, 8:53 PM EST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

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 20:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 276 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 2010-02-09Temperature 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 2010-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
402 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
Feb 9, 4:07 AM ESTGale WarningMHX18 hr
Feb 9, 4:07 AM ESTStorm WatchMHX11 hr
Feb 9, 4:13 AM ESTCoastal Flood WatchMHX11 hr
Feb 9, 4:17 AM ESTHigh Wind WatchMHX11 hr
Feb 9, 2:29 PM ESTLow Water AdvisoryMHX41 hr
Feb 9, 2:29 PM ESTStorm WarningMHX37 hr
Feb 9, 3:24 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningMHXDare, Hyde, Pamlico36 hr
Feb 9, 3:25 PM ESTCoastal Flood WarningMHX40 hr
Feb 9, 5:43 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMHX62 min

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.