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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

November 10, 201711 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this freeze warning at Nov 10, 2017, 3:05 AM EST for 11 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 11, 2017, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 10, 2017, 3:05 AM EST (08:05 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 11, 2017, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 11, 2017, 9:00 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Beaufort 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), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 2017-11-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2017-11-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Nov 9, 9:37 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 9:37 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 9, 3:39 PM EST, 11 hours 26 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
339 PM EST Thu Nov 9 2017

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>093-098-102045-
Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort-
Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Craven-Onslow-
339 PM EST Thu Nov 9 2017

...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
MORNING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the
Internet for more information about the following hazards.

   Freeze Watch.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

NCZ094-095-104-102045-
Pamlico-Carteret-Outer Banks Hyde-
339 PM EST Thu Nov 9 2017

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Cold Canadian high pressure will build into the area late this week
into the weekend, producing the coldest temperatures yet this fall
across Eastern North Carolina. A freeze will be possible on Saturday
morning with lows forecast into the low 30s.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

NCZ103-102045-
Outer Banks Dare-
339 PM EST Thu Nov 9 2017

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 9, 7:08 PM ESTWind AdvisoryMHX27 hr
Nov 10, 3:24 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMHXPamlico25 hr
Nov 10, 3:24 AM ESTHigh Surf AdvisoryMHX27 hr
Nov 10, 6:41 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX44 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2017Every freeze warning in 2017

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.