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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 24, 2012Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Mar 24, 2012, 11:41 AM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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: Mar 24, 2012, 11:41 AM EDT (15:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -59 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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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 24, 9:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 9:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 3:48 AM EDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 10:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1038 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

SCZ032-033-053-241545-
FLORENCE-INLAND HORRY-MARION-
1038 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS HORRY...FLORENCE AND MARION
COUNTIES THROUGH 1145 AM EDT...

AT 1038 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
HANNAH...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF LAKE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE MULLINS...BAYBORO...BRITTON NECK...
GALIVANTS FERRY...GAPWAY...GRESHAM...HANNAH...HORRY...JOHNSONVILLE...
KINGSBURG...POSTON AND RAINS.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS CAN POSE A VARIETY OF THREATS INCLUDING GUSTY WINDS...
SMALL HAIL...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. IT
IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

&&

LAT...LON 3424 7926 3399 7898 3381 7936 3382 7938
      3380 7940 3378 7946 3379 7947 3378 7949
      3379 7956 3387 7965
TIME...MOT...LOC 1438Z 227DEG 16KT 3387 7950

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Special weather statement, Mar 24, 11:41 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1141 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

NCZ099-SCZ053-241630-
COLUMBUS-INLAND HORRY-
1141 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS HORRY AND COLUMBUS COUNTIES
THROUGH 1230 PM EDT...

AT 1141 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
BAYBORO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MULLINS...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE WHITEVILLE...BAYBORO...CHADBOURN...
CHERRY GROVE...CLARENDON...EVERGREEN...GREEN SEA...HALLSBORO...LAKE
WACCAMAW...LORIS...MOLLIE AND REDBUG.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS CAN POSE A VARIETY OF THREATS INCLUDING GUSTY WINDS...
SMALL HAIL...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. IT
IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

&&

LAT...LON 3446 7883 3447 7872 3447 7867 3446 7865
      3446 7864 3445 7865 3427 7844 3398 7903
      3412 7916 3448 7886
TIME...MOT...LOC 1541Z 232DEG 28KT 3411 7901

BACON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 10:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	67 min
Mar 24, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	44 min
Mar 24, 4:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown	83 min
Mar 24, 5:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Horry	58 min
Mar 24, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	25 min
Mar 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		60 min
Mar 24, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	42 min
Mar 24, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	52 min
Mar 24, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	27 min
Mar 24, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	56 min
Mar 24, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	52 min
Mar 24, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	66 min
Mar 24, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	45 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.