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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, NC

November 21, 2016Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this freeze warning at Nov 21, 2016, 3:38 PM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 22, 2016, 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 21, 2016, 3:38 PM EST (20:38 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 22, 2016, 3:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 22, 2016, 8:00 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 20, 6:56 PM EST, 20 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 6:56 PM EST, 20 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 20, 9:32 PM ESTFrost AdvisoryILMBrunswick, New Hanover10 hr
Nov 21, 3:38 PM ESTFrost AdvisoryILMGeorgetown, Horry16 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.