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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 2, 2016Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 3:25 AM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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
Aug 2, 2016, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2016, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 382 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2016-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 757 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2016-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 Aug 1, 10:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 10:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:25 AM 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 4:10 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXDare110 min
Aug 2, 11:13 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCurrituck32 min
Aug 2, 11:43 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCurrituck32 min
Aug 2, 11:48 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX42 min
Aug 2, 12:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXDare2 hr
Aug 2, 12:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare28 min
Aug 2, 12:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX66 min
Aug 2, 12:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare46 min
Aug 2, 1:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXDare36 min
Aug 2, 1:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX59 min
Aug 2, 2:58 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX47 min
Aug 2, 2:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell62 min
Aug 2, 3:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXMartin41 min
Aug 2, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell, Washington67 min
Aug 2, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXMartin, Tyrrell, Washington46 min
Aug 2, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort26 min
Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXBeaufort, Martin, Pitt, Washington111 min
Aug 2, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort, Hyde, Martin43 min
Aug 2, 6:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPamlico42 min
Aug 2, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXJones25 min
Aug 2, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret52 min
Aug 2, 6:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX42 min
Aug 2, 6:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXOnslow42 min
Aug 2, 7:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret41 min
Aug 2, 7:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret, Onslow58 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.