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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 13, 2016, 4:06 PM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 14, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2016, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 14, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2016, 7:01 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 20:06 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, 8.1 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 9:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 9:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Greene | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 10:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Pitt | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 12:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Lenoir | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 1:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 2:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven | 60 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.