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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Mar 20, 2012, 2:05 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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
- Mar 20, 2012, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
County Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 20, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 20, 2:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 205 PM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012 NCZ046-081-201900- MAINLAND HYDE-TYRRELL- 205 PM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MAINLAND HYDE AND TYRRELL COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT... AT 204 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER KILKENNY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENGELHARD. ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MAINLAND HYDE AND TYRRELL COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT... AT 204 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER KILKENNY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENGELHARD. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTHERN TYRRELL COUNTY RURAL CENTRAL TYRRELL COUNTY. 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. && LAT...LON 3554 7647 3579 7629 3553 7602 3539 7626 TIME...MOT...LOC 1804Z 168DEG 2KT 3571 7625 3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pitt | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pitt | 28 min |
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.