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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Wilmington, NC

November 16, 1989Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 1989, 10:25 AM EST for Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 16, 1989, 10:25 AM EST (15:25 UTC)
Expired
Nov 16, 1989, 11:30 AM EST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE

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

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1989-11-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 195 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, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1989-11-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 380 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
380 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.2

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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
Nov 16, 10:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMNew Castle75 min
Nov 16, 11:23 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMSussex37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.