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Beach Hazards Statement 31, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 3, 2021, 8:09 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2021, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2021, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 1694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
611 WHUS42 KMHX 040009 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 809 PM EDT Sat Jul 3 2021 NCZ195-196-199-204-205-041815- /O.EXP.KMHX.BH.S.0030.000000T0000Z-210704T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMHX.BH.S.0031.210704T0009Z-210705T0000Z/ West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- Hatteras Island- 809 PM EDT Sat Jul 3 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...The beaches from Cape Hatteras to Cape Lookout, and Crystal Coast beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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 10 AM. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
606 WHUS42 KMHX 040800 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 400 AM EDT Sun Jul 4 2021 NCZ195-196-199-204-205-040900- /O.CAN.KMHX.BH.S.0031.000000T0000Z-210705T0000Z/ West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- Hatteras Island- 400 AM EDT Sun Jul 4 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... However, a moderate threat of life-threatening rip currents are still possible in the surf zone. $$
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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.