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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

February 6, 20265 counties in North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2026, 1:11 PM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 7, 2026, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 6, 2026, 1:11 PM EST (18:11 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 7, 2026, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 8, 2026, 1:12 AM EST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

Counties Carteret County, NC, Dare County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 335 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 12:00Z on 2026-02-06Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2026-02-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 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 Feb 6, 6:30 AM EST, 6 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 6:30 AM EST, 6 hours 41 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 6, 1:49 AM ESTExtreme Cold WatchMHXBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more24 hr
Feb 6, 1:56 AM ESTGale WarningMHX56 hr
Feb 6, 1:56 AM ESTStorm WarningMHX35 hr
Feb 6, 1:11 PM ESTCold Weather AdvisoryMHXBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more45 hr
Feb 6, 2:35 PM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMHXDare, Hyde36 hr

Nearby

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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.