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Beach Hazards Statement 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Jun 24, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT for Carteret County, Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 25, 2021, 4:15 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 25, 2021, 4:15 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Carteret County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
571 WHUS42 KMHX 250015 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 815 PM EDT Thu Jun 24 2021 NCZ196-203>205-251215- /O.EXP.KMHX.BH.S.0026.000000T0000Z-210625T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMHX.BH.S.0027.210625T1200Z-210626T0000Z/ East Carteret-Northern Outer Banks-Ocracoke Island- Hatteras Island- 815 PM EDT Thu Jun 24 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT FRIDAY THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...The beaches from Duck to Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Island and Core Banks beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT Friday through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The most likely time for strong rip currents to occur is a couple hours either side of low tide, which will occur around 2:30 Friday afternoon. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. When out of the current, swim back to shore. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
657 WHUS42 KMHX 250815 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 415 AM EDT Fri Jun 25 2021 NCZ196-203>205-252015- /O.EXT.KMHX.BH.S.0027.210625T0815Z-210626T0000Z/ East Carteret-Northern Outer Banks-Ocracoke Island- Hatteras Island- 415 AM EDT Fri Jun 25 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...The beaches from Duck to Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke Island and the Core Banks beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The most likely time for strong rip currents to occur is a couple hours either side of low tide, which will occur around 2:30 this afternoon. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$ 11
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Pitt | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.