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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 22, 20066 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this frost advisory at Mar 22, 2006, 2:42 AM EST for 6 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 23, 2006, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 2006, 2:42 AM EST (07:42 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 23, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 23, 2006, 7:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 2006-03-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
432 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 3:02 PM ESTFreeze WarningILMDarlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro16 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.