Rip Current, Eastern Hyde
- When
- July 4, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Eastern Hyde forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
A man drowned in a rip current off Ocracoke Island.
Rip Current in North Carolina, July 4, 2007
A man drowned in a rip current off Ocracoke Island.
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MHX wrote it up.
A man drowned in a rip current off Ocracoke Island.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 4, 8:05 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 8:05 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 905 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2007 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRES JUST OFF THE COAST WILL DRIFT EAST TODAY ALLOWING LOW LVL RETURN FLOW TO BEGIN. THIS WILL BRING MSTR BACK TO THE RGN ALONG WITH WARMER TEMPS. A COLD FRONT WILL SAG INTO THE RGN BY LATE FRI NIGHT THEN STALLED ALONG THE COAST BY SAT. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... ONE MORE DAY OF RELATIVE LOW HUMIDITY BUT WITH LOW LVL FLOW BECOMING A BIT MORE SERLY AS HIGH DRIFTS OFFSHORE TODAY WILL SEE WARMER TEMPS A SMALL INCREASE IN MSTR BY EVENING. STILL NOT ENOUGH MSTR FOR CONVECTION TO DEVELOP. WILL TREND TOWARD COOLER MAX TEMP GUIDANCE TODAY GIVEN RESULTS FROM PAST TWO DAYS. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... OVERNIGHT LOWS SHOULD BEGIN TO CREEP UP TONIGHT WHEN COMPARED TO PREVIOUS TWO DAYS. HIGH TEMP THURSDAY WILL BE HIGHER AS WELL AS MORE SUMMER LIKE PATTERN RETURNS AND LOW LVL MSTR BEGINS TO INCREASE. MODELS PERSIST IN TRYING TO DROP FRONT INTO THE RGN LATE FRI NIGHT. NEITHER GFS OR NAM APPEAR TO HAVE DEEP MSTR OVER THE RGN OR MUCH LIFT THROUGH LATE FRI. STILL WITH LOW LVL MSTR AND INSTABILITY INCREASING AHEAD OF THE FRONT BY LATE FRI AFTN WILL CONTINUE MENTIONING A LOW POP FOR FRI AFTN INTO THE EVENING. THIS APPEARS TO BE A SOMEWHAT LOW QPF EVENT THOUGH. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... GFS STALLS FRONT ALONG THE COAST BY SAT MRNG AND PERSISTS IN DEVELOPING A SERIES OF WAVES ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. OTHER MODELS NOT AS AGGRESSIVE WITH THESE FEATURES SO WILL CONTINUE IDEA FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST OF KEEPING A MENTION OF A SLIGHT CHANCE POP IN THE FORECAST THROUGH TUE...MAINLY ACROSS ERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. TEMPS RISE THROUGH THE FORECAST AND SHOULD SEE AN INCREASE IN LOW LVL MSTR AS WELL. THIS COULD LEAD TO HEAT INDEX ISSUES BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS READINGS SHOULD CLIMB TO NEAR 105 ON MONDAY. && .AVIATION /13Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... EVEN WITH LIGHT WINDS...LIMITED LOW LVL MSTR AND A FEW MID CLOUDS AROUND THE RGN SHOULD KEEP FOG FROM DEVELOPING THIS MRNG SO EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL THROUGH TODAY. BY LATE TONIGHT WITH LOW LVL MSTR STARTING TO INCREASE THERE COULD BE PATCHY MVFR VSBYS. AFTER TODAY WILL BEGIN TO SEE A BETTER CHANCE OF OVERNIGHT FOG AS MSTR INCREASES. ALSO COULD SEE MVFR CIGS/VSBYS BRIEFLY WITH CONVECTION AHEAD OF FRONT FRI NIGHT INTO EARLY SAT. && .MARINE... HIGH PRESSURE JUST OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST WILL MOVE NORTHEAST OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WHILE A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST BY LATE THIS WEEK. THE RESULTING FLOW WILL VEER FROM SOUTHEAST TODAY TO SOUTHWEST AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE FRONT IS QUITE WEAK WITH NOT MUCH OF A PUSH BEHIND IT. IT APPEARS IT WILL DISSIPATE OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS WEEKEND. WAVEWATCH KEEPS SEAS NO HIGHER THAN 4 FEET THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. .RIP CURRENTS... A LONG PERIOD SWELL COMBINED MODERATE ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ALONG HIGHLY POPULATED BEACHES WILL NECESSITATE A MODERATE RIP CURRENT THREAT TODAY. && .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 2:54 AM EST, 9 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 354 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2007 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>094-050800- MARTIN-PITT-WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT- MAINLAND HYDE-DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO- 354 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ095-098-103-104-050800- CARTERET-ONSLOW-OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 354 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
Event by event
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Eastern Hyde | 2007-07-04 | Male | In Water | Direct |
What these are
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Texas, July 4 to 6, 2007
- Marine Strong Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, July 4, 2007
- Excessive Heat in California, July 4 to 5, 2007
- Lightning Strikes in Florida, July 4, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 4, 2007
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, July 4 to 5, 2007
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 4, 2007
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, July 4, 2007
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Kansas, July 4 to 5, 2007
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 4, 2007
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 4, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2007
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 38328.