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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 14, 1987Onslow County, Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1987, 2:51 PM EDT for Onslow County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 1987, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1987, 3:50 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1987-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2152 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Hatteras, NC at 12:00Z on 1987-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 3:02 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCarteret58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.