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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 10, 2015Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Oct 10, 2015, 2:35 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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: Oct 10, 2015, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 10, 1:32 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	9 hr
Oct 10, 3:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson	24 hr
Oct 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	8 hr
Oct 10, 3:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Brunswick	3 hr
Oct 10, 4:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	3 hr
Oct 10, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		57 min
Oct 10, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		86 min
Oct 10, 9:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington, Marlboro	56 min
Oct 10, 10:13 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Darlington, Marlboro	3 hr
Oct 10, 12:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Williamsburg	3 hr
Oct 10, 12:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	3 hr
Oct 10, 1:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILM	Georgetown	3 hr
Oct 10, 1:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry, Marion	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.