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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Wilmington, NC

February 9, 20106 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this wind advisory at Feb 9, 2010, 2:54 PM EST for 6 counties in South Carolina; Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Feb 10, 2010, 8:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 9, 2010, 2:54 PM EST (19:54 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2010, 8:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 10, 2010, 8:00 PM EST
In force
12 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 19:55 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 12:00Z, 7.9 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 12:00Z on 2010-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2010-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 348 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
555 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
Feb 9, 6:06 AM ESTGale WarningILM48 hr
Feb 9, 11:17 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM10 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.