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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 16, 20246 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 16, 2024, 3:26 AM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Jul 16, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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 16, 2024, 3:26 AM EDT (07:26 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 16, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 16, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC

Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 1918 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jul 16, 2:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 26 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
Jul 15, 8:11 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Jul 16, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	29 min
Jul 16, 7:46 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson	24 hr
Jul 16, 7:49 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Jul 16, 7:49 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Jul 16, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	24 min
Jul 16, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	28 min
Jul 16, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	37 min
Jul 16, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	37 min
Jul 16, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	24 min
Jul 16, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	26 min
Jul 16, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	28 min
Jul 16, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	25 min
Jul 16, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Williamsburg	31 min
Jul 16, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	35 min
Jul 16, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	31 min
Jul 16, 6:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Horry	71 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.