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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2012, 4:37 AM EDT for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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, 4:37 AM EDT (08:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2012, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 16, 3:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 16, 12:03 AM EDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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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, 12:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington | 57 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, 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
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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.