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Dense Smoke Advisory 5, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 30, 2011Columbus County, Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this dense smoke advisory at Jun 30, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT for Columbus County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT (16:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Columbus County, NC, Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 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 dense smoke advisory 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 dense smoke advisory went out at Jun 30, 7:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 7:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 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
Jun 29, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		65 min
Jun 29, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		61 min
Jun 29, 11:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		53 min
Jun 29, 9:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	86 min
Jun 29, 10:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	56 min
Jun 29, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	54 min
Jun 30, 2:44 PM EDT	Dense Smoke Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender	20 hr

Nearby

Dense Smoke Advisories in North Carolina, 2011 Every dense smoke advisory in 2011

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.