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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 20, 2011Craven County, Lenoir County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2011, 5:47 AM EDT for Craven County, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2011, 5:47 AM EDT (09:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2011, 6:45 AM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Craven County, NC, Lenoir County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 20, 4:52 AM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 4:52 AM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 5:10 AM EDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
330 AM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0320 AM     HAIL             OTWAY                   34.77N  76.56W
06/20/2011  E1.00 INCH       CARTERET           NC   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORTS NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL OBSERVED IN
            OTWAY.

&&

EVENT NUMBER MHX1100284

DAG

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
345 AM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0321 AM     TSTM WND DMG     SNOW HILL               35.45N  77.67W
06/20/2011                   GREENE             NC   911 CALL CENTER

            GREENE COUNTY 911 CENTER REPORTS TREES DOWN ACROSS WEST
            GREENE STREET IN SNOW HILL.

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EVENT NUMBER MHX1100285

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:47 AM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:57 AM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:15 AM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:47 AM EDT, 0 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
Jun 20, 12:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	59 min
Jun 20, 12:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	58 min
Jun 20, 1:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Jones	38 min
Jun 20, 1:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	51 min
Jun 20, 1:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	31 min
Jun 20, 2:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Jones, Onslow	66 min
Jun 20, 2:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	39 min
Jun 20, 2:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven	47 min
Jun 20, 2:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		46 min
Jun 20, 2:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	49 min
Jun 20, 3:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin and 1 more	44 min
Jun 20, 3:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		65 min
Jun 20, 3:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico	60 min
Jun 20, 4:06 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		19 hr
Jun 20, 4:15 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Jun 20, 4:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	43 min
Jun 20, 4:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	48 min
Jun 20, 5:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min

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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.