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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 7, 2016Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2016, 11:37 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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: Jul 7, 2016, 11:37 PM EDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 2952 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jul 7, 10:55 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 10:55 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 8:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 7, 7:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
751 PM EDT THU JUL 07 2016

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

0720 PM     HAIL             MAYSVILLE               34.90N  77.23W
07/07/2016  M0.75 INCH       JONES              NC   PUBLIC

            1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL FELL FOR A SOLID 6-7 MIN.

&&

EVENT NUMBER MHX1600255

SEK

Local storm report, Jul 7, 8:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
804 PM EDT THU JUL 07 2016

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

0731 PM     MARINE TSTM WIND 2 E CHERRY POINT        34.92N  76.85W
07/07/2016  M38 MPH          AMZ135             NC   ASOS

            KNKT REPORTED A 38 KT WIND GUST

&&

EVENT NUMBER MHX1600256

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 8:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
808 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016

NCZ090-091-080045-
DUPLIN-LENOIR-
808 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT DUPLIN AND SOUTHWESTERN LENOIR
COUNTIES...

AT 807 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WARSAW...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WARSAW...MOUNT OLIVE...BEULAVILLE...KENANSVILLE...FAISON...
MAGNOLIA...PINK HILL AND CALYPSO.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

LAT...LON 3519 7816 3518 7808 3519 7805 3519 7802
      3518 7798 3517 7797 3517 7793 3515 7789
      3516 7789 3518 7784 3522 7783 3522 7773
      3495 7774 3482 7773 3489 7815 3504 7815
      3508 7816 3509 7817
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 265DEG 31KT 3504 7820

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 9:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:01 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 11:37 PM 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 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 8, 12:20 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		3 hr
Jul 8, 4:10 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more	22 hr
Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin, Pitt	53 min

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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.