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High Surf Advisory 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

March 6, 2020Dare County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this high surf advisory at Mar 6, 2020, 3:30 PM EST for Dare County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 7, 2020, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 2020, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 7, 2020, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 8, 2020, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
29 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 20:31 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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 2:55 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMHXDare29 hr
Mar 6, 3:14 AM ESTGale WarningMHX36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.