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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this fire weather watch at Apr 20, 2021, 3:42 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina; 6 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Apr 21, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2021, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 21, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2021, 3:17 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 20, 3:32 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 3:32 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:38 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 41 hr |
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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.