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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 28, 2018Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this high wind watch at Feb 28, 2018, 3:09 PM EST for Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 2, 2018, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 28, 2018, 3:09 PM EST (20:09 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 2, 2018, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Mar 1, 2018, 1:34 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 28, 3:05 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 3:05 PM EST, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 28, 11:28 AM EST, 3 hours 41 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	Lasted
Feb 28, 4:37 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MHX	24 hr
Feb 28, 3:20 PM EST	Gale Watch	MHX	14 hr
Feb 28, 3:38 PM EST	Coastal Flood Watch	MHX	23 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2018 Every high wind 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.