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Dense Fog Advisory 5, NWS Wilmington, NC

February 11, 2021Brunswick County, Columbus County, New Hanover County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, Williamsburg County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this dense fog advisory at Feb 11, 2021, 5:40 AM EST for Brunswick County, Columbus County, New Hanover County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2021, 5:40 AM EST (10:40 UTC)
Expired
Feb 11, 2021, 9:00 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2021-02-11Temperature 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2021-02-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 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
Feb 11, 2:14 AM ESTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryILM10 hr
Feb 11, 2:18 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryILMNew Hanover9 hr

Nearby

Dense Fog Advisories in North Carolina, 2021Dense Fog Advisories in South Carolina, 2021Every dense fog advisory in 2021

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.