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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 22, 2012Martin County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2012, 6:22 PM EDT for Martin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2012, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Martin County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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: 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

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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 Jun 22, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 11:19 AM EDT, 7 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 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

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
622 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012

NCZ029-044-222315-
MARTIN-PITT-
622 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST PITT AND MARTIN
COUNTIES THROUGH 715 PM EDT...

AT 622 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
BETHEL...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TARBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PARMELE...
ROBERSONVILLE...HASSELL......GOLD POINT...HAMILTON.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND
AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID
HYDROPLANING.

&&

LAT...LON 3599 7719 3593 7719 3594 7715 3593 7709
      3594 7704 3590 7702 3586 7704 3586 7700
      3581 7697 3571 7748 3577 7751 3580 7748
      3581 7743 3584 7739 3583 7735 3591 7735
      3597 7739 3603 7726
TIME...MOT...LOC 2222Z 246DEG 11KT 3584 7742

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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
Jun 22, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	61 min
Jun 22, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	27 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.