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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 21, 20096 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this frost advisory at Mar 21, 2009, 3:06 AM EDT for 6 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 22, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 21, 2009, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 22, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 22, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
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 radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2009-03-21Temperature 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2009-03-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.