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Flood Watch 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flood watch at Sep 8, 2014, 9:48 AM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 8, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2014, 9:48 AM EDT (13:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 8, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2014, 3:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 17 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 13:47 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, 1.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 Sep 8, 6:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 6:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 54 min |
| Sep 8, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones | 59 min |
| Sep 8, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 24 min | |
| Sep 8, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 51 min |
| Sep 8, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 39 min |
| Sep 8, 6:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Onslow | 88 min |
| Sep 8, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Lenoir | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Jones | 39 min |
| Sep 8, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven | 58 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2014Every flood watch in 2014
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.