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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this high surf advisory at Mar 4, 2025, 4:12 AM EST for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 5, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2025, 4:12 AM EST (09:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2025, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 29 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 09:17 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 3, 10:08 PM EST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 10:08 PM EST, 6 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 3:31 AM EST | Gale Warning | MHX | 43 hr | |
| Mar 4, 3:39 AM EST | Wind Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 39 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:34 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Hyde | 59 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:45 PM EST | Storm Warning | MHX | 26 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.