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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this wind advisory at Dec 16, 2023, 3:43 AM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina; Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It took effect at Dec 17, 2023, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2023, 3:43 AM EST (08:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 17, 2023, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2023, 7:46 PM EST
- In force
- 10 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 08:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.7 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
- 2497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Dec 16, 12:52 AM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 12:52 AM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 3:31 AM EST | Gale Warning | ILM | 12 hr | |
| Dec 16, 3:31 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 18 hr | |
| Dec 16, 3:37 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 56 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:52 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 18 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:52 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 25 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:13 PM EST | Storm Warning | ILM | 27 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.