A wildfire burned in a sparsely populated area.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS ILM wrote it up.
A wildfire burned in a sparsely populated area.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Mar 26, 8:30 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 930 AM EDT WED MAR 26 2008 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL RIDGE BACK ACROSS THE CAROLINAS THROUGH FRIDAY. GRADUALLY WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK ON SOUTHWESTERLY RETURN FLOW. A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH AND CROSS THE CAROLINAS SATURDAY...WITH A WEDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING FROM THE NORTH SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY/... AS OF 9 AM WEDNESDAY... TEMPERATURES STILL A LITTLE SLOW TO RISE BUT THE VERY STEEP INVERSION ON BOTH CHS AND MHX SOUNDINGS SHOW CLEARLY THAT TEMPS WILL JUMP SHARPLY WHEN THIS MIXES OUT BETWEEN NOW AND 11 AM. EQUALLY IMPRESSIVE ARE THE HYDROLAPSE RATES WHICH WILL TRANSLATE TO A SHARP DROP IN DEWPOINT ONCE MIXING COMMENCES. THERE STILL COULD BE SOME FIRE WEATHER IMPLICATIONS IF WINDS COME UP AND AN SPS MAY STILL BE REQUIRED TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 3 AM WEDNESDAY...WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT INITIALLY WILL BUCKLE SLIGHTLY BY THE END OF THE PERIOD WHICH WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE REGION BY SATURDAY MORNING. 850MB TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO MODERATE THROUGH THE PERIOD FROM AN INITIAL FIVE DEGREES OR SO TO A TOASTY 11 DEGREES CELSIUS BY FRIDAY EVENING. HAVE OPTED FOR THE WARMER OF THE GUIDANCE THROUGH THE PERIOD WHICH WOULD BE THE GFS MAV NUMBERS. NOW HAVE A SWATH OF 80 DEGREES INLAND AWAY FROM THE SEA BREEZE INFLUENCE EXTENDING BACK TO ALMOST ALL OF THE AREA. FOR NOW IT APPEARS RECORD HIGHS WILL BE SAFE FRIDAY WITH 91 IN WILMINGTON AND 83 IN FLORENCE. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 3 AM WEDNESDAY...CHANGES THIS MORNING TO THE EXTENDED INCLUDE DECREASING MAX TEMPERATURES FOR SATURDAY SOME FIVE TO TEN DEGREES ESPECIALLY NORTH WHERE FRONT MOVES THROUGH EARLIER. NO CHANGES TO THE LATTER PART OF THE EXTENDED FORECAST. && .AVIATION /12Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... VFR. MAY BE A BIT LOW ON THE WINDS AFTER THE INVERSION BREAKS...AROUND 14Z. COULD SEE SOME GUSTS NEAR 20 KTS OVER MOST TERMINALS...A BIT LESS TO THE SOUTH. SOUTHWEST WINDS DIMINISH BY EVENING WITH LIGHT WINDS OVERNIGHT. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON. POSSIBLE SCATTERED SHOWERS FRIDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY...MAINLY OVER NORTHERN TERMINALS. CAD EVENT LIKELY SUNDAY...WITH POSSIBLE LOW CEILINGS. && .MARINE... NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... AS OF 9 AM WEDNESDAY... SWRLY WINDS TO CONTINUE FAIRLY UNCHANGED THROUGH TODAY. BUOY DATA SHOWING SOME EASTERLY SWELL ENERGY COMING AROUND THE SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF A W-E ELONGATED HIGH. THIS WILL TEND TO KEEP SEAS IN THE 3 TO 4 FT RANGE AWAY FROM SHORE. NEARSHORE SEAS WILL REMAIN CLOSE TO 2 FT. SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 3 AM WEDNESDAY...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED WELL EAST OF THE AREA WILL ALLOW A SOUTHWEST FLOW OF 10-15 KNOTS TO CONTINUE UNABATED THROUGH THE PERIOD. WAVE SPECTRUM...COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF WIND WAVES WILL YIELD 2-4 FEET THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH HIGHER VALUES OUTER WATERS ASSOCIATED WITH LONGER FETCH VIA SOUTHWEST FLOW. LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 3 AM WEDNESDAY...SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORECAST SATURDAY AS THE FRONT WILL BE BISECTING THE WATERS BY SATURDAY MORNING AND JUST SOUTH OF AMZ 256 BY SATURDAY EVENING. NORTHEAST FLOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNDAY. && .ILM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...SHK NEAR TERM...MBB SHORT TERM...SHK LONG TERM...SHK AVIATION...DL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 429 AM EDT WED MAR 26 2008 NCZ087-096-099-SCZ017-023-024-032-033-039-270830- ROBESON-BLADEN-COLUMBUS-MARLBORO-DARLINGTON-DILLON-FLORENCE-MARION- WILLIAMSBURG- 429 AM EDT WED MAR 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN INCREASED FIRE DANGER MAY DEVELOP TODAY. CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DEVELOP BY THIS AFTERNOON...RISING SLOWLY BY LATE IN THE DAY. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH WILL GUST TO AROUND 20 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ097-100-101-SCZ034-046-270830- PENDER-BRUNSWICK-NEW HANOVER-HORRY-GEORGETOWN- 429 AM EDT WED MAR 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN INCREASED FIRE DANGER MAY DEVELOP TODAY. CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DEVELOP BY THIS AFTERNOON...RISING QUICKLY DURING THE MID AND LATE AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH WILL GUST TO AROUND 20 MPH. WINDS WILL BECOME SOUTH ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ250-252-254-256-270830- SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM- CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM- LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM- MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM- 429 AM EDT WED MAR 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. RJD
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire started east of I-40 between Sidbury and Holly Shelter Road and burned 1200 acres of sparsely populated land. No structures were damaged.
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