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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 30, 2013Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2013, 8:49 PM EDT for Columbus 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: Jun 30, 2013, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2013, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 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 Jun 30, 7:50 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 7:50 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 3:26 PM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:49 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
Jun 30, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	57 min
Jul 1, 8:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	49 min
Jul 1, 10:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	64 min
Jul 1, 11:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	56 min
Jul 1, 11:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	114 min
Jul 1, 12:56 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	20 days
Jul 1, 1:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Horry	3 hr
Jul 1, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		62 min
Jul 1, 2:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Horry	2 hr
Jul 1, 3:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence, Marion, Williamsburg	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence, Marion	62 min
Jul 1, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon, Marlboro	54 min
Jul 1, 4:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro	3 hr
Jul 1, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence, Marion, Williamsburg	3 hr
Jul 1, 7:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	119 min
Jul 1, 7:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Dillon, Horry, Marion	4 hr
Jul 1, 5:43 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick	14 hr
Jul 1, 6:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	3 hr
Jul 1, 6:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Pender	3 hr
Jul 1, 9:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen	7 days
Jul 1, 1:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	112 min
Jul 1, 3:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:46 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender	111 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.