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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 7, 2007, 3:41 PM EDT for 6 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Aug 8, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Aug 7, 2007, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat warning went out at Aug 7, 3:27 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:27 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
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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.