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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 30, 2022Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2022, 3:21 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 30, 2022, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2022, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 30

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 30, 1:28 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	10 hr
Mar 30, 2:42 PM EDT	High Surf Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	33 hr
Mar 30, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	26 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2022 Every special weather statement in 2022

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.