Alert archive / North Carolina / Flood Watches in 2015
Flood Watch 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flood watch at Sep 30, 2015, 3:33 PM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 1, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 32 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2015, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 1, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2015, 4:11 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 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 19:37 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, 7.6 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 53 min |
| Sep 30, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 43 min |
Nearby
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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.