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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 17, 2017Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2017, 3:00 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 17, 2017, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2017, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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 230 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: 754 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 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
Jun 17, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	60 min
Jun 17, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence, Marion	28 min
Jun 17, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	36 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2017 Every special weather statement in 2017

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.