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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 1, 2021Brunswick County, Columbus County, New Hanover County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Mar 1, 2021, 12:01 PM EST for Brunswick County, Columbus County, New Hanover County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 2021, 12:01 PM EST (17:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2021, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

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

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Feb 28, 3:47 PM EST, 20 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 3:47 PM EST, 20 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 28, 2:57 PM EST, 21 hours 4 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
Mar 1, 10:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	64 min
Mar 1, 12:13 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		92 min
Mar 1, 12:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	36 min
Mar 1, 12:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	34 min
Mar 1, 1:17 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		58 min
Mar 1, 11:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence, Marion, Williamsburg	65 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2021 Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2021 Every special weather statement 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.