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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2012, 4:59 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 22, 2012, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
County Martin County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1216 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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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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 Jun 22, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:59 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
459 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012
NCZ029-222200-
MARTIN-
459 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN MARTIN COUNTY
THROUGH 600 PM EDT...
AT 458 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES
WEST OF OAK CITY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TARBORO...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...OAK CITY...HASSELL.
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 3606 7732 3601 7721 3599 7719 3594 7719
3593 7719 3594 7716 3594 7713 3593 7713
3588 7735 3591 7735 3598 7740 3600 7741
3607 7732
TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 246DEG 8KT 3596 7744
TLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell | 27 min |
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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.