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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 1, 2012Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2012, 3:25 AM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 1, 2012, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2012, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 3336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 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 Jul 1, 12:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 12:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 9:00 PM EDT, 6 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:16 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:27 AM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:58 AM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:25 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
325 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012

NCZ103-010815-
OUTER BANKS DARE-
325 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS OUTER BANKS DARE COUNTY
THROUGH 415 AM EDT...

AT 325 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15
MILES WEST OF WAVES...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF ENGELHARD...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...SALVO......WAVES.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3547 7548 3540 7548 3531 7551 3531 7552
      3536 7552 3539 7550 3547 7550 3548 7551
      3546 7553 3548 7553 3549 7549 3562 7548
      3567 7550 3566 7547 3555 7545
TIME...MOT...LOC 0725Z 289DEG 34KT 3558 7572

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		48 min
Jul 1, 12:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Currituck	44 min
Jul 1, 1:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell, Washington	48 min
Jul 1, 1:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Currituck	45 min
Jul 1, 2:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell, Washington	44 min
Jul 1, 2:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Currituck	33 min
Jul 1, 2:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	32 min
Jul 1, 10:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Washington	35 min
Jul 1, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	25 min
Jul 1, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	49 min
Jul 1, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		44 min
Jul 1, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Hyde, Jones, Onslow and 1 more	52 min
Jul 1, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Edgecombe	57 min
Jul 1, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Jul 1, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Martin and 1 more	66 min
Jul 1, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde	34 min
Jul 1, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		20 min
Jul 1, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	48 min
Jul 1, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 2 more	65 min
Jul 1, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	54 min
Jul 1, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		65 min
Jul 1, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		89 min
Jul 1, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Hyde, Lenoir, Onslow and 3 more	57 min
Jul 1, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Onslow	63 min
Jul 1, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Onslow	53 min
Jul 1, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		31 min
Jul 1, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde	66 min
Jul 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min
Jul 1, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		51 min

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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.