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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 20, 2012Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2012, 11:19 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 20, 2012, 11:19 PM EDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 2123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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 20, 9:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 9:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 4:06 PM EDT, 7 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
406 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2012

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-212015-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-
406 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

A SLOW MOVING FRONT WILL LEAD TO WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL WITH
POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NCZ095-098-103-104-212015-
CARTERET-ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
406 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 2012

...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK.

A SLOW MOVING FRONT WILL LEAD TO WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL WITH
POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 20, 6:29 PM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:37 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 11:19 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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 20, 9:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Jones, Pamlico	85 min
Jul 21, 12:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	35 min
Jul 21, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	66 min
Jul 21, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	63 min
Jul 21, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		42 min
Jul 21, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		65 min
Jul 21, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	66 min
Jul 21, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Pamlico	64 min
Jul 21, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pitt	63 min
Jul 21, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	38 min
Jul 21, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	61 min
Jul 21, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	58 min
Jul 21, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	52 min
Jul 21, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Lenoir	56 min
Jul 21, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	58 min
Jul 21, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	57 min
Jul 21, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir	62 min
Jul 21, 5:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir	94 min
Jul 21, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		44 min
Jul 21, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Currituck	39 min
Jul 21, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin, Pitt	48 min
Jul 21, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	57 min
Jul 21, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	62 min
Jul 21, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	55 min
Jul 21, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	34 min
Jul 21, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	46 min
Jul 21, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		56 min
Jul 21, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	64 min
Jul 21, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	27 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.