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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2011, 4:16 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 29, 2011, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2011, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
County Tyrrell County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 29, 3:31 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 3:31 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 29, 4:12 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 412 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2011 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-302015- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- 412 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2011 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 816 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ095-104-302015- CARTERET-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 412 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2011 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL TUESDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ098-103-302015- ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE- 412 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2011 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 816 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL TUESDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 4:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
416 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2011
NCZ046-047-081-292100-
MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-TYRRELL-
416 PM EDT MON AUG 29 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MAINLAND DARE...MAINLAND
HYDE AND TYRRELL COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT...
AT 416 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
KILKENNY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENGELHARD...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...GUM NECK.
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 3564 7586 3554 7627 3571 7635 3578 7612
3578 7610 3579 7610 3581 7605 3573 7604
3571 7605 3569 7603 3565 7603 3568 7601
3577 7599 3582 7600 3583 7596
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 246DEG 9KT 3567 7620
27The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 3:30 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin | 17 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 52 min |
| Aug 29, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 59 min |
| Aug 29, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 51 min |
| Aug 29, 7:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Pitt | 95 min |
| Aug 29, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 30 min | |
| Aug 29, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 42 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2011Every 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.