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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 10, 2011, 8:13 AM EST for Columbus County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 11, 2011, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2011, 8:13 AM EST (13:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 11, 2011, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2011, 8:30 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
County Columbus County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:13 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 2163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 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 weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 9, 6:30 PM EST, 13 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 6:30 PM EST, 13 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 9:21 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 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.