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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

January 11, 2024Carteret County, Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Jan 11, 2024, 3:41 PM EST for Carteret County, Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 12, 2024, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 11, 2024, 3:41 PM EST (20:41 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 13, 2024, 3:00 AM EST
In force: 8 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 20:43 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, 8.7 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 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 wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 10, 4:06 PM EST, 23 hours 35 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	Lasted
Jan 11, 3:22 AM EST	Gale Watch	MHX	12 hr
Jan 11, 3:48 PM EST	Gale Warning	MHX	50 hr
Jan 11, 3:48 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MHX	6 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.