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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this winter storm warning at Mar 1, 2009, 3:34 AM EST for Darlington County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It took effect at Mar 1, 2009, 5:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 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
- Mar 1, 2009, 3:34 AM EST (08:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2009, 5:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2009, 2:11 AM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Darlington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 515 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 1, 3:23 AM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 3:23 AM EST, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 3:34 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ILM | Dillon | 23 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:08 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 52 min | |
| Mar 1, 4:05 PM EST | River Flood Watch | ILM | Florence, Marion | 19 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:19 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen | 5 days |
| Mar 1, 11:22 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen | 4 days |
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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.