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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 22, 2011Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2011, 3:01 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 22, 2011, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Craven County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 1568 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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 Jul 22, 1:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 5:47 AM EDT, 9 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:29 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
229 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2011

NCZ092>094-221900-
CRAVEN-JONES-PAMLICO-
229 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS PAMLICO...JONES AND CRAVEN
COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT...

AT 229 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
JAMES CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...RIVERDALE...BRICES
CREEK.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
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.

&&

LAT...LON 3506 7711 3516 7702 3505 7689 3503 7693
      3504 7694 3505 7698 3507 7700 3504 7698
      3501 7697 3496 7706
TIME...MOT...LOC 1829Z 047DEG 8KT 3506 7704

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:01 PM 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
Jul 22, 3:15 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more	64 hr
Jul 22, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	31 min
Jul 22, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	58 min
Jul 22, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	30 min
Jul 22, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	31 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	30 min
Jul 22, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Jones, Onslow	39 min
Jul 22, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	29 min
Jul 22, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Jones	6 min
Jul 22, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	32 min
Jul 22, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	29 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.