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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 5, 2017Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2017, 4:46 PM EDT for Carteret 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: Jul 5, 2017, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2017, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Carteret County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 7 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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 4, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	60 min
Jul 5, 8:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	46 min
Jul 5, 9:50 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		40 min
Jul 5, 9:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Carteret	36 min
Jul 5, 10:32 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		43 min
Jul 5, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Pamlico	35 min
Jul 5, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Beaufort	67 min
Jul 5, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	46 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		53 min
Jul 5, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Jones	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2017 Every special weather statement 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.