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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 18, 2012Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2012, 8:56 PM EDT for Pender 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: Aug 18, 2012, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Aug 18, 7:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 7:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 3:34 AM EDT, 17 hours 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 18, 8:56 PM 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
Aug 19, 9:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	63 min
Aug 19, 11:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	68 min
Aug 19, 11:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence, Marion	63 min
Aug 19, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	56 min
Aug 19, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	55 min
Aug 19, 12:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	67 min
Aug 19, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		59 min
Aug 19, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	27 min
Aug 18, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	57 min
Aug 19, 7:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	67 min
Aug 19, 10:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	62 min
Aug 19, 11:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	67 min
Aug 19, 11:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	57 min
Aug 19, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	66 min
Aug 19, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	55 min
Aug 19, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	67 min
Aug 19, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	54 min
Aug 19, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	53 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.