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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 9, 2012Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2012, 2:32 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 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 9, 2012, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 2733 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 9, 1:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 1:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 10:03 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
232 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2012

NCZ093>095-091930-
CARTERET-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-
232 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS PAMLICO...CRAVEN AND
CARTERET COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT...

AT 231 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CEDAR ISLAND TO MINNESOTT
BEACH...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CEDAR ISLAND TO HAVELOCK
ALONG THE NEUSE RIVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...SOUTH RIVER...CHERRY
BRANCH......MERRIMON...CHERRY BRANCH...GREAT
NECK...BACHELOR......LOLA...AND THE NEUSE RIVER.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.

DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

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.

IF YOU SEE LIGHTNING OR HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE AT RISK. TAKE SHELTER
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU CANNOT FIND SHELTER IN A BUILDING A
VEHICLE PROVIDES SAFETY FROM LIGHTNING.

BOATERS ON THE OPEN WATER AND THOSE CAMPING OUTDOORS ARE ESPECIALLY
VULNERABLE TO THE DANGERS OF LIGHTNING. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE
HARBOR. THOSE CAMPING SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR
VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3500 7705 3492 7677 3494 7672 3496 7670
      3501 7689 3499 7659 3506 7643 3495 7644
      3498 7633 3504 7637 3499 7619 3498 7619
      3499 7629 3493 7623 3498 7614 3487 7629
      3486 7631 3493 7624 3482 7676
TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 307DEG 4KT 3501 7631 3496 7685

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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
Jul 8, 11:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	62 min
Jul 9, 1:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	55 min
Jul 9, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		42 min
Jul 9, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	60 min
Jul 9, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	58 min
Jul 9, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	65 min
Jul 9, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	62 min
Jul 9, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	66 min
Jul 9, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	64 min
Jul 9, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort	62 min
Jul 9, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	51 min
Jul 9, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	63 min
Jul 9, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	52 min
Jul 9, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell, Washington	59 min
Jul 9, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		53 min
Jul 9, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	53 min
Jul 9, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	66 min
Jul 9, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Washington	54 min
Jul 9, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	52 min
Jul 9, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	63 min
Jul 9, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	59 min
Jul 9, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	65 min
Jul 9, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		47 min
Jul 9, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	67 min
Jul 9, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		24 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.