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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 28, 2014Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2014, 5:29 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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: May 28, 2014, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Brunswick County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 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 May 28, 3:29 PM EDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:29 PM EDT, 2 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 2:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
209 PM EDT WED MAY 28 2014

NCZ087-096-281915-
BLADEN-ROBESON-
209 PM EDT WED MAY 28 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS BLADEN AND ROBESON COUNTIES
THROUGH 315 PM EDT...

AT 210 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ST.
PAULS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF LUMBERTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE ELIZABETHTOWN...BARKER TEN MILE...
BLADENBORO...DUART...HOWELLSVILLE...REX...SHANNON...SMITHS...ST.
PAULS...TOBERMORY...TOLARSVILLE AND DUBLIN.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.

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 3495 7902 3490 7893 3489 7892 3486 7892
      3484 7890 3485 7885 3458 7855 3451 7890
      3481 7918 3486 7917 3496 7904
TIME...MOT...LOC 1810Z 311DEG 17KT 3480 7893

KEEBLER

Special weather statement, May 28, 3:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 4:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 5:29 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
May 27, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	66 min
May 27, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	60 min
May 27, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	54 min
May 27, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	61 min
May 27, 9:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	54 min
May 27, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	63 min
May 28, 12:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	54 min
May 28, 12:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	55 min
May 28, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	64 min
May 28, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	66 min
May 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	58 min
May 28, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	62 min
May 28, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	61 min
May 27, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	57 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.