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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 29, 2012Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2012, 2:09 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 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 29, 2012, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 639 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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 29, 1:36 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 1:36 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 29, 3:43 AM EDT, 10 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 29, 2:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
209 PM EDT WED AUG 29 2012

NCZ096-291915-
BLADEN-
209 PM EDT WED AUG 29 2012

...A BAND OF SHOWERS WILL MOVE ACROSS BLADEN COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM
EDT...

AT 209 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM TAR HEEL TO WHITE LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE ELIZABETHTOWN...LAGOON...RUSKIN...
DUBLIN AND WHITE LAKE.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

THESE SHOWERS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE
MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING
DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE
AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE
DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.

&&

LAT...LON 3478 7880 3462 7839 3449 7832 3465 7873
TIME...MOT...LOC 1809Z 317DEG 5KT 3475 7876 3462 7847

MORGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	60 min
Aug 29, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	59 min
Aug 29, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	55 min
Aug 29, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	38 min
Aug 29, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Florence, Williamsburg	82 min
Aug 29, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	37 min
Aug 29, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	44 min
Aug 29, 6:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	3 hr
Aug 29, 12:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	59 min
Aug 29, 5:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	52 min
Aug 29, 1:09 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	10 hr
Aug 29, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	50 min
Aug 29, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	67 min
Aug 29, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	36 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.