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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

November 15, 2019Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this wind advisory at Nov 15, 2019, 5:03 AM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina. It took effect at Nov 16, 2019, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 15, 2019, 5:03 AM EST (10:03 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 16, 2019, 6:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 17, 2019, 12:00 PM EST
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2019-11-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2019-11-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 14, 9:34 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM7 hr
Nov 15, 4:44 AM ESTGale WarningILM61 hr
Nov 15, 5:06 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryILMNew Hanover8 hr
Nov 15, 12:10 PM ESTStorm WarningILM42 hr
Nov 15, 3:00 PM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryILMNew Hanover, Pender23 hr
Nov 15, 3:00 PM ESTHigh Surf AdvisoryILMNew Hanover, Pender51 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.