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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 4, 2019Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 4, 2019, 11:30 AM EDT for Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2019, 11:30 AM EDT (15:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 1703 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1243 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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 heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 4, 9:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 9:23 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 4, 5:34 AM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 4, 7:09 AM EDT, 4 hours 21 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
Jul 4, 10:34 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	9 hr
Jul 4, 12:15 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	14 hr
Jul 4, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	60 min
Jul 4, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	67 min
Jul 4, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	26 min
Jul 4, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	59 min
Jul 4, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		31 min
Jul 4, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	67 min
Jul 4, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Georgetown, Williamsburg	35 min
Jul 4, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	27 min
Jul 4, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	54 min
Jul 4, 4:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Darlington, Florence, Marlboro	2 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.