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Beach Hazards Statement 45, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 23, 2021, 10:34 AM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 23, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2021, 10:34 AM EDT (14:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 23, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 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 14:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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
- 578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
740 WHUS42 KMHX 231434 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 1034 AM EDT Mon Aug 23 2021 NCZ195-196-199-204-205-240000- /O.NEW.KMHX.BH.S.0045.210823T1500Z-210824T0000Z/ West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- Hatteras Island- 1034 AM EDT Mon Aug 23 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...The beaches from south of Cape Hatteras to Surf City. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT 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 3 pm this afternoon. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Life-threatening rip currents. If caught in a rip current, remain calm. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. 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. && $$
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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.