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Dense Fog Advisory 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 28, 20216 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this dense fog advisory at Feb 28, 2021, 4:30 AM EST for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 28, 2021, 4:30 AM EST (09:30 UTC)
Expired
Feb 28, 2021, 9:00 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:34 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory 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 dense fog advisory went out at Feb 28, 4:00 AM EST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 4:00 AM EST, 30 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 3:00 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX66 hr
Feb 28, 4:30 AM ESTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryMHX31 hr
Feb 28, 9:05 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Onslow4 hr

Nearby

Dense Fog Advisories in North Carolina, 2021Every dense fog advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.