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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 18, 202513 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this winter storm warning at Feb 18, 2025, 3:34 AM EST for 13 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 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
Feb 18, 2025, 3:34 AM EST (08:34 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 20, 2025, 3:51 AM EST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 298 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-02-18Temperature 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-02-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -98 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 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
1785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 3:34 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryMHXCarteret, Dare, Hyde, Onslow48 hr
Feb 18, 3:48 AM ESTGale WarningMHX48 hr
Feb 18, 3:48 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX4 days

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2025Every winter storm warning in 2025

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.