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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this frost advisory at May 9, 2020, 3:41 AM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at May 10, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2020, 3:41 AM EDT (07:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 10, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 10, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt 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 07:44 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at May 8, 7:00 PM EDT, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 7:00 PM EDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:09 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 51 min | |
| May 9, 3:02 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 43 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.