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Special Weather Statement, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2021, 10:18 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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 21, 2021, 10:18 PM EDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2021, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 1078 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 21, 10:13 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 10:13 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 404 PM EDT Sat Aug 21 2021 NCZ195-196-199-203>205-222015- West Carteret-East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Northern Outer Banks- Ocracoke Island-Hatteras Island- 404 PM EDT Sat Aug 21 2021 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Beach Hazards Statement. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>092-094-193-194-198-222015- Martin-Pitt-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Greene-Beaufort- Mainland Hyde-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Pamlico-Northern Craven- Southern Craven-Inland Onslow- 404 PM EDT Sat Aug 21 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 6:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC
1018 PM EDT Sat Aug 21 2021
NCZ196-220245-
East Carteret NC-
1018 PM EDT Sat Aug 21 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central
Carteret County through 1045 PM EDT...
At 1018 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Harkers Island, moving northeast at 10 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...
Harkers Island, Straits, Marshallberg, Smyrna, Davis, Williston,
Otway, Cape Lookout Lighthouse and Gloucester.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
&&
LAT...LON 3467 7664 3483 7653 3477 7638 3460 7653
TIME...MOT...LOC 0218Z 218DEG 8KT 3466 7655
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
DAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:01 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow | 24 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:30 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 36 hr | |
| Aug 22, 12:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MHX | Carteret | 28 min |
| Aug 22, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 min |
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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.