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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at May 21, 2015, 1:21 PM EDT for Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 21, 2015, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2015, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
County Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 21, 1:14 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 1:14 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 1:18 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 NCZ087-096-099-105-107-109-110-221730- ROBESON-BLADEN-COLUMBUS-INLAND PENDER-INLAND NEW HANOVER- INLAND BRUNSWICK-COASTAL BRUNSWICK- 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 193 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH THE HIGHEST RISK ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREAT. ALTHOUGH CAN NOT RULE OUT MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL OR AN ISOLATED TORNADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCZ017-023-024-032-033-039-053-055-221730- MARLBORO-DARLINGTON-DILLON-FLORENCE-MARION-WILLIAMSBURG-INLAND HORRY- INLAND GEORGETOWN- 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH THE HIGHEST RISK ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREAT ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ106-108-221730- COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER- 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 193 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH THE HIGHEST RISK ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREAT ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STRONG LONGSHORE CURRENT IS POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCZ054-056-221730- COASTAL HORRY-COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH THE HIGHEST RISK ACROSS SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREAT ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STRONG LONGSHORE CURRENT IS POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ252-254-256-221730- CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM- LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM- MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM- 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH THE HIGHEST RISK ACROSS THE CAPE FEAR WATERS. SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION CONDITIONS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ250-221730- SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM- 118 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 193 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH THE HIGHEST RISK ACROSS THE CAPE FEAR WATERS. SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION CONDITIONS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 21, 1:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
121 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015
SCZ017-211745-
MARLBORO-
121 PM EDT THU MAY 21 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MARLBORO COUNTY...
AT 121 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER BENNETTSVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BENNETTSVILLE...MCCOLL...CLIO...TATUM AND MARLBORO PARK HOSPITAL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3463 7946 3454 7950 3456 7974 3468 7974
3469 7954
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 265DEG 22KT 3463 7965
TRAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 26 min |
| May 21, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 60 min |
| May 21, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 23 min |
| May 21, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 61 min |
| May 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 40 min |
| May 21, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 49 min |
| May 21, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Pender | 46 min |
| May 21, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 41 min |
| May 21, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 19 min |
| May 21, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 33 min |
| May 21, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 38 min |
| May 21, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | New Hanover | 8 min |
| May 21, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marlboro | 30 min |
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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.