Alert archive / North Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2012, 10:21 AM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 11, 2012, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2012, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 1450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KMHX 111421
SPSMHX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1021 AM EDT SAT AUG 11 2012
NCZ095-111515-
CARTERET-
1021 AM EDT SAT AUG 11 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS CARTERET COUNTY THROUGH
1115 AM EDT...
AT 1021 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
BOGUE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...NEWPORT.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3465 7711 3471 7710 3477 7713 3480 7711
3481 7696 3483 7695 3485 7687 3485 7679
3496 7669 3499 7671 3500 7664 3472 7688
3469 7698 3468 7697 3470 7690 3467 7693
3464 7709
TIME...MOT...LOC 1421Z 212DEG 27KT 3472 7703
$$
11The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Lenoir | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 12:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven | 29 min |
| Aug 11, 12:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 4:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 31 min |
| Aug 11, 5:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 25 min |
| Aug 11, 5:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pamlico | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 8:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 9:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 21 min | |
| Aug 11, 11:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Onslow | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene | 41 min |
| Aug 11, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 56 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.