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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 2, 2024Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2024, 8:13 AM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 2, 2024, 8:13 AM EDT (12:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2024, 8:45 AM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:17 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 6:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 6:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 8:13 AM EDT, 0 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
Aug 2, 3:22 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	20 hr
Aug 2, 4:26 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	16 hr
Aug 2, 8:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	23 min
Aug 2, 9:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	28 min
Aug 2, 12:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	31 min
Aug 2, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	37 min
Aug 2, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	21 min
Aug 2, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	18 min
Aug 2, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	47 min
Aug 2, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	27 min
Aug 2, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	34 min
Aug 2, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	15 min
Aug 2, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	28 min
Aug 2, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	27 min
Aug 2, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	54 min
Aug 2, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	30 min
Aug 2, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	33 min
Aug 2, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	25 min
Aug 2, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	35 min
Aug 2, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	35 min
Aug 2, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	43 min
Aug 2, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	33 min
Aug 2, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	31 min
Aug 2, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	29 min
Aug 2, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	24 min
Aug 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	37 min
Aug 2, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	30 min
Aug 2, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	31 min
Aug 2, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	27 min
Aug 2, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	11 min
Aug 2, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	39 min
Aug 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	29 min
Aug 2, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	32 min
Aug 2, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	28 min
Aug 2, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Williamsburg	24 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	30 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.