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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 20, 2019Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Jan 20, 2019, 1:50 AM EST for Dare County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 20, 2019, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 20, 2019, 1:50 AM EST (06:50 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2019, 3:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 21, 2019, 3:34 AM EST
In force
25 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

County Dare County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 241 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2019-01-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2019-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 535 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
535 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
708 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 20, 4:49 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXGreene, Lenoir, Pitt41 min
Jan 20, 4:56 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Pamlico34 min
Jan 20, 5:30 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven, Pamlico45 min
Jan 20, 6:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHXCarteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico45 min

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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.