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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2016, 12:45 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 31, 2016, 12:45 PM EDT (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2016, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
County Pamlico County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 Jul 31, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1005 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016 NCZ104-011415- OUTER BANKS HYDE- 1005 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ095-098-103-011415- CARTERET-ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE- 1005 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK. HEAT ADVISORY. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-011415- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- 1005 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 12:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1245 PM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016
NCZ093>095-311730-
CARTERET-PAMLICO-CRAVEN-
1245 PM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016
...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PAMLICO...
NORTH CENTRAL CARTERET AND EASTERN CRAVEN COUNTIES...
AT 1244 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED NEAR MINNESOTT
BEACH FERRY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAVELOCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ARAPAHOE AND VANDEMERE.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3504 7685 3533 7649 3522 7641 3515 7645
3511 7633 3507 7630 3490 7672
TIME...MOT...LOC 1644Z 235DEG 30KT 3502 7671
SGKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 3:53 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Jul 31, 12:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min | |
| Jul 31, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 57 min | |
| Jul 31, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 55 min | |
| Jul 31, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Hyde | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 56 min |
| Jul 31, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 65 min |
| Jul 31, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Craven | 62 min |
| Jul 31, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Jul 31, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Dare | 59 min |
| Jul 31, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Beaufort | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Onslow | 42 min |
| Jul 31, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Washington | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 48 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.