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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

November 14, 20158 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this freeze warning at Nov 14, 2015, 1:30 PM EST for 8 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 15, 2015, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 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
Nov 14, 2015, 1:30 PM EST (18:30 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 15, 2015, 3:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 15, 2015, 8:00 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2015-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2015-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 4:47 AM ESTFrost AdvisoryMHXDare, Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell27 hr
Nov 14, 4:47 AM ESTFreeze WatchMHXBeaufort, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin and 2 more9 hr
Nov 14, 2:09 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt58 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2015Every freeze warning in 2015

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.