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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 8, 2016Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2016, 6:18 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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: Jul 8, 2016, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1340 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jul 8, 3:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 2:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:18 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
618 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

NCZ087-096-082300-
BLADEN NC-ROBESON NC-
618 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NORTHWESTERN BLADEN AND NORTHEASTERN
ROBESON COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM EDT...

AT 618 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
REX...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF RED SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ST. PAULS...JEROME...HOWELLSVILLE...REX...TOLARSVILLE...DUART...
BARKER TEN MILE...TOBERMORY...PARKTON AND LUMBER BRIDGE.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 IN NORTH CAROLINA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 24
AND 38.

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 3493 7898 3490 7894 3487 7892 3486 7893
      3484 7890 3485 7883 3485 7865 3465 7897
      3489 7912 3495 7903
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 308DEG 18KT 3490 7901

III

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	50 min
Jul 7, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	53 min
Jul 7, 10:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		92 min
Jul 7, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	27 min
Jul 7, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	58 min
Jul 7, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	46 min
Jul 7, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	48 min
Jul 7, 10:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg	41 min
Jul 7, 11:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	47 min
Jul 7, 11:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown, Williamsburg	40 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North 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.