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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

September 15, 2025Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Sep 15, 2025, 3:06 AM EDT for Dare County, Hyde County, North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 15, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 15, 2025, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 15, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 16, 2025, 12:52 PM EDT
In force
31 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 264 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Sep 14, 4:17 PM EDT, 10 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 4:17 PM EDT, 10 hours 49 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 10:16 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX59 min
Sep 15, 11:37 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX38 min
Sep 15, 2:05 PM EDTFlood WatchMHXBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Greene, Hyde and 5 more22 hr
Sep 15, 7:57 PM EDTBeach Hazards StatementMHXDare24 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.