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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 6, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT for 8 counties in South Carolina; 6 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 7, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2012, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 7, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 6, 1:45 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 1:45 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marlboro | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Dillon | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | New Hanover | 47 min |
Nearby
Heat Advisories in South Carolina, 2012Heat Advisories in North Carolina, 2012Every heat advisory in 2012
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.