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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 16, 2012Darlington County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2012, 12:03 AM EDT for Darlington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 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: May 16, 2012, 12:03 AM EDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Darlington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 May 15, 9:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 9:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 9:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 15, 7:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
708 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

NCZ087-160015-
ROBESON-
708 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS ROBESON COUNTY THROUGH 815
PM EDT...

AT 708 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
RAEMON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF LAURINBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE RED SPRINGS...ALMA...BUIE...MAXTON...
RAEMON...SEVEN BRIDGES...SHANNON...WAKULLA AND RENNERT.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH
CAROLINA.

&&

LAT...LON 3480 7900 3457 7939 3463 7946 3477 7934
      3482 7936 3484 7934 3484 7919 3490 7911
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 235DEG 11KT 3466 7940

BACON

Special weather statement, May 15, 7:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
739 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

SCZ017-023-024-160045-
DARLINGTON-DILLON-MARLBORO-
739 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS DILLON...MARLBORO AND
DARLINGTON COUNTIES THROUGH 845 PM EDT...

AT 739 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
MECHANICSVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF DARLINGTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BINGHAM...BROWNSVILLE...CLIO...
DUNBAR...HAMER...LITTLE ROCK...MECHANICSVILLE...MINTURN...OAK GROVE
AND SOUTH OF THE BORDER.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH
CAROLINA.

&&

LAT...LON 3455 7936 3449 7929 3428 7959 3430 7962
      3430 7963 3431 7967 3429 7969 3434 7977
      3467 7953
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 220DEG 12KT 3434 7966

BACON

Special weather statement, May 15, 8:53 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 9:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 15, 10:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 12:03 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 8:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro	115 min
May 15, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro	37 min
May 15, 8:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro	2 hr
May 15, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	67 min
May 16, 12:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Darlington	91 min
May 16, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	66 min
May 16, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	35 min
May 16, 1:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Horry	47 min
May 16, 1:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	111 min
May 16, 2:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	105 min
May 16, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		69 min
May 16, 4:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown	96 min
May 16, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		95 min
May 16, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	67 min
May 16, 5:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Georgetown	3 hr
May 16, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	32 min
May 16, 6:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Darlington	35 min
May 15, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	60 min
May 16, 4:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	38 min
May 16, 5:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	34 min
May 16, 5:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	33 min
May 16, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	29 min
May 16, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South 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.