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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2025, 6:54 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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 6, 2025, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2025, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 6, 3:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:48 AM EDT, 15 hours 6 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC 348 AM EDT Wed Aug 6 2025 NCZ029-045>047-080-081-094-193>195-070800- Martin-Washington-Tyrrell-Mainland Dare-Beaufort-Mainland Hyde- Pamlico-Northern Craven-Southern Craven-West Carteret- 348 AM EDT Wed Aug 6 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ203-205-070800- Northern Outer Banks-Hatteras Island- 348 AM EDT Wed Aug 6 2025 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING NORTH OF CAPE HATTERAS... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Beach Hazards Statement. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ196-199-204-070800- East Carteret-Coastal Onslow-Ocracoke Island- 348 AM EDT Wed Aug 6 2025 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Moderate Rip Current Risk. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ044-079-090>092-198-070800- Pitt-Greene-Duplin-Lenoir-Jones-Inland Onslow- 348 AM EDT Wed Aug 6 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Heavy rain today and tonight has the potential to create localized minor flooding issues. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:54 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MHX | 4 days | |
| Aug 6, 4:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Duplin | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MHX | Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt | 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.