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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this freeze warning at Nov 14, 2015, 2:35 PM EST for Bladen County, Pender County, Robeson County, North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Nov 15, 2015, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 14, 2015, 2:35 PM EST (19:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 15, 2015, 3:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2015, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Bladen County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Nov 14, 2:26 PM EST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 2:26 PM EST, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2:54 AM EST | Frost Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 29 hr |
| Nov 14, 2:54 AM EST | Freeze Watch | ILM | Robeson | 12 hr |
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.