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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this fire weather watch at Apr 29, 2021, 3:36 PM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 30, 2021, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2021, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2021, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2021, 3:41 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 29, 12:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 12:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 3:49 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 26 hr | |
| Apr 29, 4:39 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 15 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:31 PM EDT | Gale Warning | MHX | 15 hr |
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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.