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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 14, 1986Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1986, 5:30 PM EDT for Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1986, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1986, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bladen County, NC, Robeson County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 5:37 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Bladen, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILM 142135
SVRILM
NCC155-017-142230-

BULLETIN  IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILMINGTON NC
530 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

NORTH CAROLINA...ROBESON...BLADEN

AT 530 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER ROBESON COUNTY NEAR LUMBERTON.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST TOWARD BLADENBORO IN
BLADEN COUNTY.  THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN ROBESON COUNTY REPORTED
A NUMBER OF TREES HAVE BEEN BLOWN DOWN IN THE COUNTY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
COUNTY AND CITY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS CENTERS ARE REQUESTED TO BROADCAST
THE TYPE AND VALID TIME OF THIS WARNING.  RELAY ITS HIGHLIGHTS TO
KEY OFFICIALS.

KETTERMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Craven	64 min
Jun 14, 5:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Pamlico	70 min
Jun 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Beaufort	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1986 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.