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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 8, 201112 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this winter storm watch at Feb 8, 2011, 3:04 PM EST for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 9, 2011, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 8, 2011, 3:04 PM EST (20:04 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 9, 2011, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 9, 2011, 3:40 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 8, 1:49 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 1:49 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.