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Coastal Flood Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this coastal flood warning at Mar 18, 2021, 3:07 PM EDT for Dare County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 19, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 22 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2021, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2021, 9:14 AM EDT
- In force
- 22 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 19:09 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 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this coastal flood warning went out at Mar 17, 6:46 PM EDT, 20 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 6:46 PM EDT, 20 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:47 AM EDT | Gale Warning | MHX | 3 days | |
| Mar 18, 3:49 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell | 57 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:55 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde | 11 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:07 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico | 4 days |
| Mar 18, 3:07 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde | 61 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2021Every coastal flood warning in 2021
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.