Alert archive / South Carolina / Ice Storm Warnings in 2026
Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this ice storm warning at Jan 23, 2026, 12:57 PM EST for Robeson County, North Carolina; Darlington County, Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jan 24, 2026, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 23, 2026, 12:57 PM EST (17:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 24, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2026, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
Counties Robeson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 12:57 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 54 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.