Alert archive / North Carolina / Heat Advisories in 2016

Heat Advisory 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 8, 201612 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 8, 2016, 4:10 PM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 9, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2016, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 9, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 9, 2016, 1:51 PM EDT
In force: 3 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 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 8, 4:06 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 4:06 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 11:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1155 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-091600-
MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-
MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW-
OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE-
1155 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WITH THE MAIN THREATS OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL.
THE TIMING FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM AROUND 7
PM TO MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

HEAT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED SATURDAY FOR HEAT INDEX VALUES OF
105 TO 109 DEGREES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 3:29 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
329 PM EDT FRI JUL 08 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0911 PM     TSTM WND DMG     WINTERVILLE             35.53N  77.40W
07/07/2016                   PITT               NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREE DOWN ON HWY 903 WINTERVILLE

&&

EVENT NUMBER MHX1600258

TL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	37 min
Jul 7, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow and 1 more	58 min
Jul 7, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	44 min
Jul 7, 11:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	53 min
Jul 8, 12:20 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		3 hr
Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin, Pitt	53 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in North Carolina, 2016 Every heat advisory in 2016

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.