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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 16, 202010 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood watch at Jun 16, 2020, 7:17 AM EDT for 10 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 16, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2020, 7:17 AM EDT (11:17 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 16, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2020, 3:32 AM EDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Flood severity: None

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 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 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 65 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 Jun 16, 5:24 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 5:24 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 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
Jun 15, 8:09 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde	48 hr
Jun 15, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		35 min
Jun 15, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		67 min
Jun 15, 10:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		35 min
Jun 16, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		57 min
Jun 16, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		58 min
Jun 16, 3:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Dare, Hyde	81 min
Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Dare, Hyde	3 hr
Jun 16, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Dare	3 hr
Jun 16, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		39 min
Jun 16, 5:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Onslow	87 min
Jun 16, 5:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Dare	5 hr
Jun 16, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		96 min
Jun 16, 7:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Onslow	100 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.