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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this red flag warning at Mar 28, 2022, 9:33 AM EDT for Greene County, Martin County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 28, 2022, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 28, 2022, 9:33 AM EDT (13:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2022, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Counties Greene County, NC, Martin County, NC, Pitt County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 2112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:21 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 26 hr | |
| Mar 28, 9:40 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | MHX | Carteret, Dare | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:40 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 23 hr |
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.