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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this winter storm watch at Jan 5, 2017, 10:02 AM EST for 12 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 6, 2017, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2017, 10:02 AM EST (15:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2017, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2017, 4:17 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare 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), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 5, 7:25 AM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 7:25 AM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 3:07 PM EST | Gale Warning | MHX | 60 hr | |
| Jan 5, 3:42 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 5 more | 50 hr |
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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.