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Hurricane Warning 1006, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 11, 20185 counties in North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this hurricane warning at Sep 11, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 11, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2018, 5:09 PM EDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane warning 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 hurricane warning went out at Sep 11, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 3:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 6:49 AM EDT	Hurricane Watch	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson	46 hr
Sep 11, 7:44 AM EDT	Storm Surge Watch	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	9 hr
Sep 11, 5:04 PM EDT	Storm Surge Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	4 days
Sep 11, 7:51 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	6 days
Sep 11, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	69 min

Nearby

Hurricane Warnings in North Carolina, 2018 Hurricane Warnings in South Carolina, 2018 Every hurricane warning in 2018

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.