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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 4, 2024Craven County, Jones County, Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2024, 2:08 PM EDT for Craven County, Jones County, Pamlico 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
Aug 4, 2024, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2024, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC, Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 281 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 376 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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 Aug 4, 1:20 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:20 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 2:50 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX20 hr
Aug 4, 10:44 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX46 min
Aug 4, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX57 min
Aug 4, 3:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX56 min
Aug 4, 3:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXDuplin, Jones, Lenoir3 hr
Aug 4, 4:22 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMHXBeaufort, Craven, Pamlico108 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.