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Beach Hazards Statement 23, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

May 25, 20264 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this beach hazards statement at May 25, 2026, 8:03 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at May 26, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2026, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
In effect from
May 26, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 26, 2026, 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 00:06 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2026-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 896 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2026-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 2:58 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMHX44 hr
May 26, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMHX32 min
May 26, 4:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPamlico52 min
May 26, 5:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXWashington36 min
May 26, 6:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXTyrrell, Washington53 min
May 26, 6:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPitt53 min
May 26, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMHXPitt38 min

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in North Carolina, 2026Every beach hazards statement in 2026

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.