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Beach Hazards Statement 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

April 6, 20254 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at Apr 6, 2025, 8:14 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 7, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2025, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 7, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 7, 2025, 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 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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-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: 1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Apr 6, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 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
Apr 7, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	21 min
Apr 7, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MHX	Duplin, Greene, Lenoir	79 min
Apr 7, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MHX	Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	26 min
Apr 7, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MHX	Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt	31 min
Apr 7, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Craven, Jones, Pamlico	31 min
Apr 7, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		45 min
Apr 7, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MHX	Beaufort, Craven, Martin, Pitt, Washington	30 min
Apr 7, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington	32 min
Apr 7, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		46 min
Apr 7, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		19 min
Apr 7, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Tyrrell	43 min
Apr 7, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MHX	Duplin	51 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.