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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 5, 2016Dillon County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT for Dillon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 5, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Dillon County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 70 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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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 Jun 5, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:35 AM EDT, 11 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:00 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
300 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

NCZ087-099-SCZ024-033-053-051930-
COLUMBUS NC-ROBESON NC-MARION SC-DILLON SC-INLAND HORRY SC-
300 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR WEST CENTRAL COLUMBUS...SOUTH
CENTRAL ROBESON...NORTHWESTERN HORRY...NORTHEASTERN MARION AND
SOUTHEASTERN DILLON COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM EDT...

AT 300 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
MULLINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF UP 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MULLINS...FAIR BLUFF...LAKE VIEW...BARNESVILLE...CHERRY GROVE...NICHOLS...
CERRO GORDO AND MARIETTA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THUNDERSTORMS CAN POSE A VARIETY OF THREATS INCLUDING GUSTY WINDS...
SMALL HAIL...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. IT
IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

&&

LAT...LON 3415 7922 3422 7928 3446 7906 3423 7883
TIME...MOT...LOC 1900Z 236DEG 25KT 3421 7919

III

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 2:59 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	10 hr
Jun 5, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	46 min
Jun 5, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Hoke	25 min
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	33 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender	40 min
Jun 5, 5:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Columbus	52 min
Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	36 min
Jun 4, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	57 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	16 min
Jun 5, 3:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	3 hr
Jun 5, 4:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Horry	2 hr
Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	38 min
Jun 5, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	37 min
Jun 5, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Marlboro	53 min
Jun 5, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	31 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.