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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 10, 2012Darlington County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 10, 2012, 12:19 AM EDT for Darlington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 10, 2012, 12:19 AM EDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Darlington County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 2227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 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 Jul 9, 10:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 10:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 7:29 PM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:57 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 7:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 9:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 9:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 10:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:19 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
Jul 9, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	45 min
Jul 9, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	45 min
Jul 9, 10:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown, Williamsburg	49 min
Jul 10, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	58 min
Jul 10, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	54 min
Jul 10, 2:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Horry	3 hr
Jul 10, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		54 min
Jul 10, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	64 min
Jul 10, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	57 min
Jul 10, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		35 min
Jul 10, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown	2 hr
Jul 10, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown, Williamsburg	61 min
Jul 10, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		38 min
Jul 10, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		30 min
Jul 10, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion and 1 more	53 min
Jul 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	60 min
Jul 10, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	64 min
Jul 10, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon, Marlboro	43 min
Jul 10, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	62 min
Jul 10, 7:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Marlboro	53 min
Jul 10, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	55 min
Jul 10, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	63 min
Jul 10, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	58 min
Jul 10, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	24 min
Jul 10, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	52 min

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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.