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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

December 19, 20187 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood watch at Dec 19, 2018, 3:02 PM EST for 7 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 20, 2018, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 19, 2018, 3:02 PM EST (20:02 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 20, 2018, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 21, 2018, 3:38 AM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity: None

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood watch went out at Dec 19, 3:00 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 3:00 PM EST, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 19, 8:14 AM EST, 6 hours 48 minutes before

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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
Dec 18, 9:32 PM EST	River Flood Warning	MHX	Duplin	12 hr
Dec 19, 4:16 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		66 hr
Dec 19, 3:04 PM EST	Gale Watch	MHX		13 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2018 Every flash flood watch in 2018

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.