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Beach Hazards Statement 72, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 30, 2021, 7:35 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It took effect at Oct 30, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2021, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 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 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
370 WHUS42 KMHX 302335 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 735 PM EDT Sat Oct 30 2021 NCZ203-205-311145- /O.CAN.KMHX.BH.S.0071.000000T0000Z-211031T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMHX.BH.S.0072.211031T0000Z-211101T0000Z/ Northern Outer Banks-Hatteras Island- 735 PM EDT Sat Oct 30 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING NORTH OF CAPE HATTERAS... * WHAT...Dangerous Rip Currents. * WHERE...The beaches north of Cape Hatteras. * 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 Sunday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$ NCZ196-204-310045- /O.CAN.KMHX.BH.S.0071.000000T0000Z-211031T0000Z/ East Carteret-Ocracoke Island- 735 PM EDT Sat Oct 30 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... There will be a moderate threat of rip currents from Cape Hatteras to Cape Lookout Sunday. $$
1 follow-up statement
355 WHUS42 KMHX 310829 CFWMHX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 429 AM EDT Sun Oct 31 2021 NCZ203-205-312030- /O.CON.KMHX.BH.S.0072.000000T0000Z-211101T0000Z/ Northern Outer Banks-Hatteras Island- 429 AM EDT Sun Oct 31 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous Rip Currents. * WHERE...The beaches north of Cape Hatteras. * 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 Sunday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
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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.