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Gale Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 20, 2014

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this gale warning at Jan 20, 2014, 3:40 PM EST. It took effect at Jan 21, 2014, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 19 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 20, 2014, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 21, 2014, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 22, 2014, 10:51 AM EST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this gale warning 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 gale warning went out at Jan 20, 2:55 PM EST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 2:55 PM EST, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 20, 3:16 PM EST, 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
316 PM EST MON JAN 20 2014

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-212030-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
316 PM EST MON JAN 20 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY AND DEEPEN AS IT
MOVES NORTHEAST OFF THE COAST TUESDAY EVENING. SCATTERED LIGHT
RAIN WILL DEVELOP TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND GRADUALLY CHANGE TO LIGHT
SNOW FROM NORTH TO SOUTH LATE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING. LIGHT
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS AROUND 1/2 TO 3/4 OF AN INCH WILL BE
POSSIBLE...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 264. ELSEWHERE ONLY
LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED WITH LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATION. TEMPERATURES
WILL DROP BELOW FREEZING TUESDAY EVENING AND IF WE DO GET LIGHT
SNOW SOME SLICK SPOTS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL SURGE INTO THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT WITH LOWS
IN THE UPPER TEENS TO LOWER 20S INLAND BY WEDNESDAY MORNING...WIND
CHILL VALUES WILL DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS WEDNESDAY MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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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.