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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2021, 3:13 PM EDT for Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2021, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Greene County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted.
203
WWUS82 KMHX 071913
SPSMHX
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
313 PM EDT Sat Aug 7 2021
NCZ029-044-079-080-072000-
Greene NC-Beaufort NC-Martin NC-Pitt NC-
313 PM EDT Sat Aug 7 2021
...A strong thunderstorm with heavy rain will impact portions of
Greene, northern Pitt, southwestern Martin and northwestern Beaufort
Counties through 400 PM EDT...
At 312 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Bruce, or near Farmville, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Greenville, Farmville, Bethel, Stokes, Snow Hill, Bell Arthur,
Robersonville, House, Bruce, Maury, Ormondsville, Lizzie, East
Carolina University, Pitt Greenville Airport, Dowdy Ficklen Stadium,
Fountain, Castoria, Fort Run VFD, Bull Head VFD and Parmele.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3581 7744 3581 7742 3583 7741 3582 7735
3587 7735 3591 7728 3572 7711 3550 7747
3539 7777 3553 7782 3557 7782
TIME...MOT...LOC 1912Z 242DEG 48KT 3565 7750
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
$$
27The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Duplin | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 8:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:02 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 43 min | |
| Aug 7, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 36 min | |
| Aug 7, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 2:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Greene, Martin, Pitt | 117 min |
| Aug 7, 5:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 85 min |
| Aug 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir | 2 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.