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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 3, 2024Dillon County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2024, 6:21 PM EDT for Dillon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2024, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Dillon County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 3, 6:38 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Wsw Little Rock, SC	Report of a tree down on Higgins Road.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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: 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

As transmitted.

258 
WWUS82 KILM 032221
SPSILM

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wilmington NC
621 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024
 
NCZ087-SCZ017-024-032300-
Robeson NC-Marlboro SC-Dillon SC-
621 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN ROBESON...
NORTHWESTERN DILLON AND SOUTHEASTERN MARLBORO COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM
EDT...

At 621 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Dunbar, or 10 miles northwest of Dillon, moving northeast at 35 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...
Pembroke, Maxton, Rowland, Clio, Raemon, Hamer, Brownsville, Oak
Grove, South Of The Border, Bingham, Wakulla, Purvis, Prospect,
Dunbar, Little Rock, Minturn, Elrod, Blenheim, and Raynham.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 95 in South Carolina between mile markers 177 and 181,
between mile markers 187 and 188, and between mile markers 196 and
198.
 Interstate 95 in North Carolina between mile markers 1 and 4.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

&&

LAT...LON 3484 7924 3459 7916 3430 7960 3451 7967
      3467 7951 3464 7947 3463 7946 3477 7933
      3482 7936 3484 7935
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 228DEG 31KT 3450 7954 

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

$$

SCALORA

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, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	17 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, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	47 min
Aug 3, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	46 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.