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Heat Advisory 13, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 18, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Jul 19, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2015, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Dillon, Marlboro | 59 min |
| Jul 18, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Marlboro | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Dillon | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Lee | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry | 56 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.