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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC

February 26, 1992Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1992, 11:14 AM EST for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 1992, 11:14 AM EST (16:14 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 1992, 12:00 PM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Bladen County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 11:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMSampson25 min
Feb 26, 12:18 PM ESTTornado WarningILMDuplin, Onslow57 min

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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.