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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 21, 2011Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2011, 11:20 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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 21, 2011, 11:20 PM EDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2011, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Duplin County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 1052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 21, 10:24 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 10:24 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 9:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 11:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1120 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

NCZ090-220345-
DUPLIN-
1120 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS DUPLIN COUNTY THROUGH 1145
PM EDT...

AT 1118 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6
MILES WEST OF WARSAW...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...WARSAW...AND...
BOWDENS...MAGNOLIA...KENANSVILLE.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PENNY SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARLY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING.
SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS. MANY LIGHTNING
STRIKES WILL OCCUR WELL AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. IF
YOU CANNOT SEEK SHELTER INDOORS TAKE COVER IN A VEHICLE.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND
AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID
HYDROPLANING.

&&

LAT...LON 3490 7815 3508 7816 3509 7818 3512 7817
      3514 7777 3473 7774 3482 7818
TIME...MOT...LOC 0318Z 272DEG 33KT 3498 7817

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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 22, 3:40 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		4 days
Jun 22, 3:51 AM EDT	Dense Smoke Advisory	MHX		5 hr
Jun 22, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	53 min
Jun 22, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	36 min
Jun 22, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	47 min
Jun 22, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	58 min
Jun 22, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.