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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 5, 2007Marlboro County, South Carolina; Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this freeze warning at Apr 5, 2007, 3:04 PM EDT for Marlboro County, South Carolina; Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 6, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 2 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: Apr 5, 2007, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 6, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 6, 2007, 6:08 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Bladen County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Marlboro County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -92 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 5, 9:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 9:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 3:04 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion	15 hr
Apr 5, 4:56 PM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro, Williamsburg	22 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2007 Freeze Warnings in South Carolina, 2007 Every freeze warning in 2007

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.