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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 25, 2016Florence County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2016, 2:50 PM EDT for Florence County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 25, 2016, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Florence County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 1006 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 25, 1:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:09 AM EDT, 10 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:07 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:37 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:50 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
250 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016

SCZ032-251930-
FLORENCE SC-
250 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR CENTRAL FLORENCE COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM
EDT...

AT 250 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER EFFINGHAM...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF FLORENCE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLORENCE...PAMPLICO...NEW HOPE...EFFINGHAM...EVERGREEN...HYMAN...
FRIENDFIELD...SCRANTON...COWARD...
HEALTH SOUTH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL...
CAROLINAS HOSPITAL SYSTEM AND CAROLINAS HOSPITAL SYSTEM - CEDAR
TOWER.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 IN SOUTH CAROLINA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
155 AND 156.

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 3421 7972 3397 7950 3388 7984 3389 7984
      3414 7990
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 333DEG 14KT 3407 7978

JDW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	38 min
Jun 25, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	38 min
Jun 25, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	47 min
Jun 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		115 min
Jun 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	40 min
Jun 25, 4:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen	118 min
Jun 25, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	51 min
Jun 25, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon, Florence, Marion	45 min
Jun 25, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	59 min
Jun 25, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Georgetown, Williamsburg	42 min
Jun 25, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Williamsburg	48 min

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.