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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2024, 10:34 AM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2024, 10:34 AM EST (15:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marlboro | 36 min |
| Feb 28, 6:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 25 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.