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Tropical Storm Warning 1018, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tropical storm warning at Oct 26, 2012, 5:14 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2012, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tropical storm warning 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 tropical storm warning went out at Oct 26, 4:15 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 4:15 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 4:51 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico | 12 hr |
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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.