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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 15, 2012Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2012, 4:11 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 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, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Pamlico County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 2363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
238 PM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-161845-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
238 PM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 580 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

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

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 3:29 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 3:55 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 4:11 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
411 PM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

NCZ094-152115-
PAMLICO-
411 PM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS PAMLICO COUNTY THROUGH 515
PM EDT...

AT 411 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
MERRITT...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAVELOCK...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAMLICO...
WHORTONSVILLE......FLORENCE.

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

DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

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.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING.
SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS. MANY LIGHTNING
STRIKES WILL OCCUR WELL AHEAD OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. IF
YOU CANNOT SEEK SHELTER INDOORS TAKE COVER IN A VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 7687 3518 7686 3527 7647 3524 7649
      3522 7648 3522 7654 3521 7651 3518 7652
      3519 7659 3517 7661 3516 7659 3518 7657
      3515 7653 3506 7660 3506 7663 3500 7672
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 258DEG 15KT 3510 7670

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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
Aug 14, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	43 min
Aug 15, 4:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	65 min
Aug 15, 4:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	29 min
Aug 15, 5:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	57 min
Aug 15, 5:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	53 min
Aug 15, 1:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Craven, Pamlico	46 min
Aug 15, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		35 min
Aug 15, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	41 min
Aug 15, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	42 min
Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	30 min
Aug 15, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	46 min
Aug 15, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	65 min
Aug 15, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir	60 min
Aug 15, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	63 min
Aug 15, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		44 min
Aug 15, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde, Pamlico	57 min
Aug 15, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pitt	50 min
Aug 15, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow	27 min
Aug 15, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	41 min
Aug 15, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pitt	41 min
Aug 15, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	61 min
Aug 15, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		50 min

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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.