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Tropical Storm Warning 1005, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 7, 202115 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tropical storm warning at Jul 7, 2021, 11:07 PM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
Jul 7, 2021, 11:07 PM EDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2021, 1:51 AM EDT
In force
27 hr
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 03:09 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 00:00Z, 3.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2021-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2021-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tropical storm 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 tropical storm warning went out at Jul 7, 9:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 9:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:14 PM EDTBeach Hazards StatementMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow24 hr
Jul 8, 9:52 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell, Washington23 min
Jul 8, 12:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCarteret26 min
Jul 8, 12:10 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXGreene, Pitt35 min
Jul 8, 12:33 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXGreene, Pitt27 min
Jul 8, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX49 min
Jul 8, 2:44 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde31 min
Jul 8, 3:09 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde, Tyrrell, Washington36 min
Jul 8, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX44 min
Jul 8, 6:29 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Hyde31 min

Nearby

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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.