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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 22, 2016Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 22, 2016, 4:07 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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: Apr 22, 2016, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	45 min
Apr 22, 12:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	52 min
Apr 22, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	52 min
Apr 22, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	50 min
Apr 22, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	45 min
Apr 22, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	43 min
Apr 22, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	39 min
Apr 22, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	57 min
Apr 22, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	50 min
Apr 22, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	41 min
Apr 22, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	48 min
Apr 22, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon, Marion	44 min
Apr 22, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	43 min
Apr 22, 7:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Florence	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2016 Every special weather statement 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.