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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 3:49 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 2, 2012, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
County Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
098
WWUS82 KILM 021949
SPSILM
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
349 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
NCZ087-096-022045-
BLADEN-ROBESON-
349 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS BLADEN AND ROBESON COUNTIES
THROUGH 445 PM EDT...
AT 349 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
ST. PAULS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF RED SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE LUMBERTON...BARKER TEN MILE...
DUART...HESTERTOWN...HOWELLSVILLE...REX...SMITHS...ST. PAULS...
TOBERMORY...TOLARSVILLE...DUBLIN AND LUMBER BRIDGE.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
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 3489 7892 3487 7891 3486 7892 3484 7890
3485 7887 3485 7885 3465 7869 3453 7898
3487 7913 3493 7898
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 333DEG 8KT 3483 7898
$$
15The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Georgetown | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Florence | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 17 min |
| Aug 2, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marion | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Williamsburg | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 9 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 65 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.