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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 30, 2012Dare County, Hyde County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this areal flood warning at May 30, 2012, 3:50 PM EDT for Dare County, Hyde County, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 85 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2012, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at May 30, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 11:48 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 1:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 1:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 1:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 30, 3:41 PM EDT, 9 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
May 30, 6:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	88 min
May 30, 8:08 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		112 min
May 30, 8:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones and 4 more	119 min
May 30, 9:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	3 hr
May 30, 10:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 4 more	115 min
May 30, 11:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Jones	32 min
May 30, 11:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		36 min
May 30, 11:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 2 more	3 hr
May 30, 12:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 1 more	3 hr
May 30, 1:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell, Washington	3 hr
May 30, 1:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pitt	3 hr
May 30, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		35 min
May 30, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		2 hr
May 30, 2:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Dare	87 min
May 30, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		80 min
May 30, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	61 min
May 30, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		84 min
May 30, 5:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MHX	Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell	92 min
May 30, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	54 min
May 30, 5:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	6 hr
May 30, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	44 min
May 30, 6:27 PM EDT	Gale Warning	MHX		3 hr
May 30, 6:42 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	MHX		3 hr
May 30, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Dare	3 hr

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.