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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 28, 201612 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 28, 2016, 10:29 AM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 28, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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: Jul 28, 2016, 10:29 AM EDT (14:29 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 28, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 28, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

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 14:33 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, 2.5 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.

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: 993 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jul 28, 10:29 AM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 10:29 AM 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
Jul 27, 8:10 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more	24 hr
Jul 27, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		46 min
Jul 27, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Hyde	66 min
Jul 27, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	47 min
Jul 27, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		63 min
Jul 27, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	62 min
Jul 27, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	44 min
Jul 27, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		42 min
Jul 27, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	51 min
Jul 27, 11:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	29 min
Jul 28, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	52 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.