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Flood Watch 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 30, 201312 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flood watch at Jun 30, 2013, 3:40 PM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 30, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 50 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2013, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 30, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jul 2, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
50 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity
None

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 12:00Z on 2013-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 617 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 12:00Z on 2013-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
617 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 1:07 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde53 min
Jun 30, 5:44 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX31 min
Jun 30, 5:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXOnslow63 min
Jun 30, 9:54 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX66 min
Jun 30, 10:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret65 min
Jun 30, 10:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Jones, Onslow64 min
Jun 30, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare23 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2013Every flood watch in 2013

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.