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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

January 27, 2012Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jan 27, 2012, 8:06 AM EST for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 9 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 27, 2012, 8:06 AM EST (13:06 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 2012, 8:15 AM EST
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 8.2

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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 27, 5:53 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		52 min
Jan 27, 8:42 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		63 min
Jan 27, 9:37 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		53 min
Jan 27, 10:38 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		52 min
Jan 27, 2:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	58 min
Jan 27, 8:38 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	22 min
Jan 27, 8:58 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	32 min
Jan 27, 9:15 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	30 min
Jan 27, 9:42 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	18 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.