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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 2, 2013Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Sep 2, 2013, 1:21 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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: Sep 2, 2013, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 2013, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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
Sep 1, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	55 min
Sep 1, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	61 min
Sep 1, 9:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	34 min
Sep 1, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Martin, Pitt	63 min
Sep 1, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Martin, Pitt	57 min
Sep 1, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	63 min
Sep 2, 4:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Lenoir	60 min
Sep 2, 5:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	52 min
Sep 2, 6:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	62 min
Sep 2, 7:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Carteret	82 min
Sep 2, 8:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	58 min
Sep 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		54 min
Sep 2, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare, Hyde	61 min
Sep 2, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	57 min
Sep 2, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	40 min
Sep 2, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	36 min
Sep 2, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		43 min
Sep 2, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	60 min
Sep 2, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Jones	55 min
Sep 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Sep 2, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	63 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2013 Every special weather statement 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.