Alert archive / South Carolina / Winter Storm Watches in 2017
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this winter storm watch at Jan 5, 2017, 3:56 PM EST for Darlington County, Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina; Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 6, 2017, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2017, 3:56 PM EST (20:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2017, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2017, 2:48 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Bladen County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 3:57 PM EST | Gale Watch | ILM | 5 hr | |
| Jan 5, 6:51 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Robeson | 4 hr |
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.