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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

July 8, 2022Carteret County, Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2022, 2:26 AM EDT for Carteret County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 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 8, 2022, 2:26 AM EDT (06:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2022, 5:30 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Carteret County, NC, Onslow County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 7, 3:50 PM EDT, 10 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:50 PM EDT, 10 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		47 min
Jul 7, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Dare	15 min
Jul 7, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		27 min
Jul 7, 8:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Dare	92 min
Jul 7, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Greene	37 min
Jul 7, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	50 min
Jul 7, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	30 min
Jul 8, 1:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Duplin	3 hr
Jul 8, 1:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	39 min
Jul 8, 4:32 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MHX		4 days
Jul 8, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Onslow	35 min
Jul 8, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	38 min
Jul 8, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Craven	36 min
Jul 8, 5:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Craven, Jones	113 min
Jul 8, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Martin	24 min

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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.