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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 20, 2014Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2014, 12:45 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 20, 2014, 12:45 PM EDT (16:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -222 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 20, 10:51 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 10:51 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 3:54 AM EDT, 8 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 12:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Jun 19, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		60 min
Jun 19, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		47 min
Jun 19, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	58 min
Jun 19, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Martin, Pitt	27 min
Jun 19, 8:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	56 min
Jun 19, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare, Tyrrell	34 min
Jun 19, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		36 min
Jun 19, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Lenoir	65 min
Jun 19, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		34 min
Jun 19, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	66 min
Jun 19, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	65 min
Jun 19, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Martin, Washington	58 min
Jun 19, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Greene, Lenoir	42 min
Jun 19, 9:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		49 min
Jun 19, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		31 min
Jun 19, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pitt	56 min
Jun 19, 10:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones, Pamlico	54 min
Jun 19, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		53 min
Jun 19, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde	34 min
Jun 19, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde	45 min
Jun 19, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		36 min
Jun 19, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Jones, Pamlico	42 min
Jun 19, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		32 min
Jun 20, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	31 min
Jun 20, 12:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene, Lenoir	59 min
Jun 20, 1:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin, Lenoir	51 min
Jun 20, 1:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	46 min
Jun 20, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven, Jones	50 min
Jun 20, 3:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	42 min
Jun 20, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		31 min
Jun 20, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	29 min
Jun 20, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	23 min
Jun 20, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	31 min
Jun 20, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	64 min
Jun 20, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	33 min
Jun 20, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	62 min
Jun 20, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	46 min
Jun 20, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2014 Every special weather statement 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.