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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 25, 1990Beaufort County, Craven County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1990, 3:28 PM EDT for Beaufort County, Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 1990, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1990, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 1990-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 554 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 1990-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1027 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 251930
SVRILM
NCC013-049-252030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
328 PM EDT SAT AUG 25 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN EAST NORTH CAROLINA
          ...BEAUFORT...NORTHERN CRAVEN
 
AT 325 PM RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE NEW BERN
AIRPORT IN CRAVEN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AROUND
15 MPH AND IT WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO SOUTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY. THE
FLIGHT SERVICE AT THE NEW BERN AIRPORT REPORTED A GUST TO 63 MPH AT
321 PM.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

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.