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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this high surf advisory at Feb 5, 2020, 3:50 PM EST for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 6, 2020, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2020, 3:50 PM EST (20:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2020, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Carteret County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 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 surf 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 high surf advisory went out at Feb 5, 3:45 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 3:45 PM EST, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 5, 3:07 AM EST, 12 hours 43 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 307 AM EST Wed Feb 5 2020 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193-194-198-060815- Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort- Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven- Southern Craven-Inland Onslow- 307 AM EST Wed Feb 5 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Strong to possibly severe thunderstorms are possible Thursday night ahead of a strong cold front. There will also be a threat of heavy rainfall and minor flooding, along with strong winds associated with this system. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ203-205-060815- Northern Outer Banks-Hatteras Island- 307 AM EST Wed Feb 5 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Strong to possibly severe thunderstorms are possible Thursday night. There will also be a threat of heavy rainfall and minor flooding, along with strong winds associated with this system. Minor coastal flooding is possible for the soundside of the Outer Banks as well. Very rough surf is also expected to develop Thursday night through Friday, especially for Hatteras Island. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ195-196-199-204-060815- West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- 307 AM EST Wed Feb 5 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Strong to possibly severe thunderstorms are possible Thursday night ahead of a strong cold front. There will also be a threat of heavy rainfall and minor flooding, along with strong winds associated with this system. Very rough surf is also expected to develop Thursday night through Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:47 AM EST | Gale Watch | MHX | 13 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:18 PM EST | High Wind Watch | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 12 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:18 PM EST | Wind Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 50 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:19 PM EST | Gale Warning | MHX | 55 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:50 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MHX | Dare | 57 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in North Carolina, 2020Every high surf advisory in 2020
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.