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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 11, 1993Carteret County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1993, 3:18 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1993, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1993, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Carteret County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 1993-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2408 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 1993-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
2408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 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
Jul 11, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMCraven62 min
Jul 11, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMJones65 min
Jul 11, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMOnslow63 min

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.