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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 17, 2022Carteret County, Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Feb 17, 2022, 3:03 PM EST for Carteret County, Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 18, 2022, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 17, 2022, 3:03 PM EST (20:03 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 18, 2022, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 18, 2022, 1:00 PM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Carteret County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 294 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-02-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-02-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 17, 3:51 AM ESTHigh Surf AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde34 hr
Feb 17, 3:02 PM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMHXDare22 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.