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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Jan 12, 2012, 3:16 PM EST for Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 13, 2012, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2012, 3:16 PM EST (20:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 13, 2012, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2012, 2:08 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
256 WWUS72 KMHX 122016 NPWMHX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 316 PM EST THU JAN 12 2012 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED TONIGHT AND FRIDAY ALONG THE OUTER BANKS AND PAMLICO SOUND COUNTIES... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA TONIGHT. A TIGHT WESTERLY PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL DEVELOP WITH SUSTAINED WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UPWARDS OF 45 MPH. WINDS WILL DIMINISH BEHIND THE COLD FRONT LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NCZ047-081-095-103-104-130900- /O.NEW.KMHX.WI.Y.0002.120113T0500Z-120114T0000Z/ MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-CARTERET-OUTER BANKS DARE- OUTER BANKS HYDE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOREHEAD CITY...BEAUFORT... EMERALD ISLE...NEWPORT...KILL DEVIL HILLS...KITTY HAWK... NAGS HEAD...SOUTHERN SHORES 316 PM EST THU JAN 12 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY. * WINDS...WEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS WILL ADVERSELY IMPACT HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AND BLOW AROUND LOOSE OBJECTS SUCH AS GARBAGE CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE. DEAD OR WEAKENED TREES AND SMALL BRANCHES MAY BE BLOWN DOWN BY THE WINDS. SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
205 WWUS72 KMHX 130920 NPWMHX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 420 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2012 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED TODAY ALONG THE OUTER BANKS AND PAMLICO SOUND COUNTIES... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT...BETWEEN LOW PRESSURE TO THE NORTH AND HIGH PRESSURE TO THE SOUTHWEST...WILL BE OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA TODAY. SUSTAINED WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL AFFECT COASTAL SECTIONS INTO THIS AFTERNOON. NCZ047-081-095-103-104-132100- /O.CON.KMHX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120114T0000Z/ MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-CARTERET-OUTER BANKS DARE- OUTER BANKS HYDE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOREHEAD CITY...BEAUFORT... EMERALD ISLE...NEWPORT...KILL DEVIL HILLS...KITTY HAWK... NAGS HEAD...SOUTHERN SHORES 420 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...WEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS WILL ADVERSELY IMPACT HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...AND BLOW AROUND LOOSE OBJECTS SUCH AS GARBAGE CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE. DEAD OR WEAKENED TREES AND SMALL BRANCHES MAY BE BLOWN DOWN BY THE WINDS. SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
991 WWUS72 KMHX 131908 NPWMHX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 208 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2012 ...WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED... .THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS RELAXED THIS AFTERNOON AND WIND GUSTS HAVE FALLEN TO 25 TO 30 MPH. THUS WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FOR FAR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. NCZ047-081-095-103-104-132015- /O.CAN.KMHX.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-120114T0000Z/ MAINLAND DARE-MAINLAND HYDE-CARTERET-OUTER BANKS DARE- OUTER BANKS HYDE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOREHEAD CITY...BEAUFORT... EMERALD ISLE...NEWPORT...KILL DEVIL HILLS...KITTY HAWK... NAGS HEAD...SOUTHERN SHORES 208 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE FALLEN BELOW WIND ADVISORY THRESHOLDS...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 9:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 49 min |
| Jan 11, 9:36 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 39 min | |
| Jan 11, 10:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 56 min |
| Jan 12, 3:35 AM EST | Gale Warning | MHX | 33 hr | |
| Jan 12, 3:12 PM EST | Low Water Advisory | MHX | 19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.