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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 1, 1992Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 75 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 1992-07-01Temperature 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1992-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 012346 COR
SVRILM
NCC019-129-020030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
733 PM EDT WED JUL 1 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

   ...BRUNSWICK COUNTY...NEW HANOVER COUNTY

AT 733 PM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH INTO
BRUNSWICK AND NEW HANOVER COUNTIES. WIND GUSTS FROM THE STORMS HAVE
REACHED OVER 50 MPH AT HOLDEN BEACH.


SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 MPH TO OVER 100
MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY
DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.

CORRECTED TIMES

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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.