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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

August 9, 2024Carteret County, Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2024, 8:31 AM EDT for Carteret County, Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 2 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 9, 2024, 8:31 AM EDT (12:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2024, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 24 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: 1408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 9, 5:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 5:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 6:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 26 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
Aug 8, 8:13 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	MHX	Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow	24 hr
Aug 8, 8:24 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Jones	8 days
Aug 9, 10:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		64 min
Aug 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico	3 hr
Aug 9, 4:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Duplin, Jones, Onslow	3 hr
Aug 9, 5:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MHX	Craven	5 days
Aug 9, 5:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Duplin, Onslow	3 hr
Aug 9, 6:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MHX	Onslow	2 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.