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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 5, 2011Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2011, 3:09 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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: Jul 5, 2011, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Craven County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 Jul 5, 2:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 10:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:09 AM EDT, 5 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
309 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2011

NCZ093-094-052000-
CRAVEN-PAMLICO-
309 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS PAMLICO AND CRAVEN COUNTIES
THROUGH 400 PM EDT...

AT 308 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
CROATAN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF JAMES CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...JAMES
CITY...FAIRFIELD HARBOR...ARAPAHOE...REELSBORO...GRANTSBORO.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

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.

BOATERS ON THE OPEN WATER AND THOSE CAMPING OUTDOORS ARE ESPECIALLY
VULNERABLE TO THE DANGERS OF LIGHTNING. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE
HARBOR. THOSE CAMPING SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR
VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3497 7710 3524 7689 3508 7665 3497 7682
      3502 7691 3502 7693 3504 7694 3507 7700
      3501 7697 3495 7688 3496 7687 3495 7685
      3486 7698
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 225DEG 12KT 3498 7699

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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
Jul 4, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin, Pitt	63 min
Jul 4, 8:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Currituck	54 min
Jul 4, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Martin, Pitt	59 min
Jul 4, 9:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt	55 min
Jul 4, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	57 min
Jul 5, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	58 min
Jul 5, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	62 min
Jul 5, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	66 min
Jul 5, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	55 min
Jul 5, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	65 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	64 min
Jul 5, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		47 min
Jul 5, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	56 min
Jul 5, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	58 min
Jul 5, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	54 min
Jul 5, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		50 min
Jul 5, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	58 min
Jul 5, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	55 min
Jul 5, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	66 min
Jul 5, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Duplin	84 min
Jul 5, 6:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	85 min
Jul 5, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	76 min
Jul 5, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	59 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.