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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 3, 2024Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2024, 2:13 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 17 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 3, 2024, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2024, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 775 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 3, 9:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 9:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 3:38 AM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 1:35 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wilmington NC
135 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024

NCZ096-031800-
Bladen NC-
135 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY THROUGH
200 PM EDT...

At 135 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Elizabethtown, moving northeast at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Elizabethtown, Lisbon, Lagoon, Elkton, Emerson, Clarkton, White Lake,
and Bladen County Hospital.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.

&&

LAT...LON 3484 7849 3481 7845 3477 7843 3475 7839
      3473 7839 3472 7838 3470 7837 3467 7832
      3464 7831 3463 7832 3459 7828 3445 7848
      3445 7862 3446 7864 3445 7866 3446 7866
      3447 7868 3450 7872 3485 7852 3486 7850
TIME...MOT...LOC 1735Z 224DEG 31KT 3461 7852

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

ABW

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wilmington NC
213 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024

NCZ096-031830-
Bladen NC-
213 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY
THROUGH 230 PM EDT...

At 213 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Ammon, or 13 miles north of Elizabethtown, moving northeast at 20
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Ammon.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3484 7849 3483 7847 3482 7846 3481 7846
      3481 7845 3476 7852 3482 7867 3485 7866
      3485 7852 3486 7850
TIME...MOT...LOC 1813Z 213DEG 17KT 3482 7859

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

ABW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 8:23 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Aug 2, 8:23 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Aug 3, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	25 min
Aug 3, 3:31 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	8 hr
Aug 3, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	43 min
Aug 3, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	58 min
Aug 3, 7:57 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	24 hr
Aug 3, 7:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Robeson	2 hr
Aug 3, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	26 min
Aug 3, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Williamsburg	24 min
Aug 3, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Georgetown	28 min
Aug 3, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	25 min
Aug 3, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	47 min
Aug 3, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington	47 min
Aug 3, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	45 min
Aug 3, 5:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Darlington	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	39 min
Aug 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	47 min
Aug 3, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	46 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.