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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 4, 2012Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2012, 6:06 PM EDT for Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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: Apr 4, 2012, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Greene County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Apr 4, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 2:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
233 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-103-104-051845-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-OUTER BANKS DARE-
OUTER BANKS HYDE-
233 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 140 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND 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.

STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THE MAIN SEVERE
THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SEVERE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

NCZ095-098-051845-
CARTERET-ONSLOW-
233 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THE MAIN SEVERE
THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SEVERE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:06 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
606 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012

NCZ044-079-091-042300-
GREENE-LENOIR-PITT-
606 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS LENOIR...PITT AND GREENE
COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM EDT...

AT 606 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES
NORTH OF LINDELL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF FARMVILLE...MOVING EAST
AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...WALSTONBURG......
FOUNTAIN...CASTORIA...FARMVILLE......LIZZIE...BELL ARTHUR.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.

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 3571 7761 3563 7723 3530 7746 3552 7783
      3557 7783
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 290DEG 20KT 3566 7783

31/5

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	64 min
Apr 4, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	58 min
Apr 4, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	43 min
Apr 4, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.