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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
County Tyrrell County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 420 AM EDT THU APR 28 2016 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-290830- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 420 AM EDT THU APR 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE THREATS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. THE BEST CHANCE OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE NORTH OF AN OCRACOKE TO NEW BERN TO KINSTON LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 2:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 256 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 NCZ080-081-281930- BEAUFORT-MAINLAND HYDE- 256 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL BEAUFORT AND WEST CENTRAL MAINLAND HYDE COUNTIES... AT 255 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER BAYVIEW FERRY TERMINAL...OR 16 MILES EAST OF RIVER ROAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELHAVEN...BAYVIEW FERRY TERMINAL...RANSOMVILLE. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3560 7658 3544 7639 3537 7672 3544 7680 TIME...MOT...LOC 1855Z 234DEG 17KT 3542 7672 2
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:36 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 336 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 NCZ081-282015- MAINLAND HYDE- 336 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MAINLAND HYDE COUNTY... AT 335 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SWAN QUARTER FERRY TERMINAL...OR 35 MILES EAST OF RIVER ROAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SWAN QUARTER FERRY TERMINAL...SWINELL FORK...FAIRFIELD. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3531 7640 3540 7648 3565 7608 3541 7593 TIME...MOT...LOC 1935Z 242DEG 20KT 3538 7637 26
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 416 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 NCZ046-047-081-282100- TYRRELL-MAINLAND HYDE-WESTERN DARE- 416 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN MAINLAND DARE... SOUTHERN TYRRELL AND NORTHEASTERN MAINLAND HYDE COUNTIES... AT 415 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 16 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA... OR 31 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLYMOUTH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GUM NECK. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3556 7626 3572 7638 3593 7602 3566 7587 TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 244DEG 13KT 3568 7623 26
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 27, 10:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Hyde | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 30 min | |
| Apr 28, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Hyde | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Tyrrell | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde, Tyrrell | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Martin | 16 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.