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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

November 14, 2015Bladen County, Pender County, Robeson County, North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2015-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2015-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -159 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 2:54 AM ESTFrost AdvisoryILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender29 hr
Nov 14, 2:54 AM ESTFreeze WatchILMRobeson12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in South Carolina, 2015Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2015Every freeze warning in 2015

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.