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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 17, 1990New Hanover County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1990, 6:02 PM EDT for New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1990, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County New Hanover 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1990-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1008 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1990-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
1008 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.