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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 28, 2022Bladen County, Pender County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this freeze warning at Mar 28, 2022, 2:38 PM EDT for Bladen County, Pender County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 29, 2022, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
Mar 28, 2022, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2022, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 29, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Bladen County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-03-28Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
2112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 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
Mar 28, 12:18 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM18 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.