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Flood Watch 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flood watch at Jul 11, 2013, 3:39 PM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 11, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 26 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2013, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 11, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2013, 10:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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 19:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 11, 2:45 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:45 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 513 AM EDT THU JUL 11 2013 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-120915- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- 513 AM EDT THU JUL 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WET PATTERN WILL DEVELOP BEGINNING TONIGHT WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BRINGING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY AND POSSIBLY INTO SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ095-098-103-104-120915- CARTERET-ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 513 AM EDT THU JUL 11 2013 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. A WET PATTERN WILL DEVELOP BEGINNING TONIGHT WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BRINGING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY AND POSSIBLY INTO SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 66 min |
| Jul 11, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 66 min |
| Jul 11, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell | 54 min |
| Jul 11, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Lenoir | 40 min |
| Jul 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 46 min | |
| Jul 11, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Lenoir | 41 min |
| Jul 11, 6:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Craven, Lenoir, Pitt | 84 min |
| Jul 11, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell | 52 min |
| Jul 11, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.