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Tropical Storm Warning 1005, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tropical storm warning at Jul 6, 2021, 11:16 PM EDT for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2021, 11:16 PM EDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2021, 8:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tropical storm warning 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 tropical storm warning went out at Jul 6, 10:38 PM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 10:38 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:37 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 47 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 7:08 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 25 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marion | 31 min |
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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.