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Beach Hazards Statement 58, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 12, 20234 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 12, 2023, 8:34 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 13, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 2023, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 13, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 13, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

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

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 2023-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 928 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 2023-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 beach hazards 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 beach hazards statement went out at Sep 12, 6:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 6:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 4:50 AM EDTGale WatchMHX10 hr
Sep 13, 5:16 AM EDTCoastal Flood WatchMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde10 hr
Sep 13, 11:51 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX24 min
Sep 13, 12:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell27 min
Sep 13, 12:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXBeaufort30 min
Sep 13, 12:18 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX42 min
Sep 13, 12:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXHyde35 min
Sep 13, 12:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX34 min
Sep 13, 1:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX40 min
Sep 13, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX63 min
Sep 13, 2:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX45 min
Sep 13, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX42 min
Sep 13, 2:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX60 min
Sep 13, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX50 min
Sep 13, 2:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX48 min
Sep 13, 2:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX46 min
Sep 13, 3:10 PM EDTGale WarningMHX46 hr
Sep 13, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX46 min
Sep 13, 3:41 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde68 hr
Sep 13, 3:41 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Craven, Onslow46 hr
Sep 13, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX33 min
Sep 13, 3:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven34 min
Sep 13, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXCraven31 min
Sep 13, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX49 min
Sep 13, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX52 min
Sep 13, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXMartin, Pitt32 min
Sep 13, 6:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXOnslow26 min
Sep 13, 7:02 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXGreene, Pitt88 min

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in North Carolina, 2023Every beach hazards statement in 2023

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.