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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

January 3, 2012Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jan 3, 2012, 1:20 AM EST for Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2012, 1:20 AM EST (06:20 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2012, 2:15 AM EST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 11:59 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	ILM		16 hr
Jan 3, 12:36 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	24 min
Jan 3, 12:38 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	22 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012 Every special weather statement 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.