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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 15, 2012Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2012, 4:46 AM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 15, 2012, 4:46 AM EDT (08:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2012, 5:15 AM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2012-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 535 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2012-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1306 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.4

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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 Aug 15, 3:18 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:18 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 4:09 AM EDT, 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 4:40 AM EDT, 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 4:46 AM 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 8:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDuplin43 min
Aug 15, 4:40 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell65 min
Aug 15, 5:18 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde57 min
Aug 15, 5:37 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell53 min
Aug 15, 1:29 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Pamlico46 min
Aug 15, 1:55 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX35 min
Aug 15, 2:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPamlico41 min
Aug 15, 2:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret42 min
Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde30 min
Aug 15, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDuplin46 min
Aug 15, 3:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell65 min
Aug 15, 4:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPamlico64 min
Aug 15, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir60 min
Aug 15, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXJones63 min
Aug 15, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX44 min
Aug 15, 5:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde, Pamlico57 min
Aug 15, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPitt50 min
Aug 15, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow27 min
Aug 15, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret41 min
Aug 15, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPitt41 min
Aug 15, 7:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven61 min
Aug 15, 7:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX50 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012Every 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.