Alert archive / North Carolina / High Wind Watches in 2019
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this high wind watch at Apr 18, 2019, 3:34 AM EDT for Carteret County, Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 19, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2019, 3:34 AM EDT (07:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2019, 3:13 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Carteret County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 2283 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 17, 9:39 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 9:39 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 3:52 AM EDT | Gale Watch | MHX | 11 hr | |
| Apr 18, 9:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 70 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:13 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde | 33 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:13 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 40 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Gale Warning | MHX | 39 hr | |
| Apr 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Storm Warning | MHX | 33 hr | |
| Apr 18, 4:00 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 52 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:00 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 53 hr |
Nearby
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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.