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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 18, 1993Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1993, 5:07 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

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The facts

Issued
May 18, 1993, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1993, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Iredell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 319 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-05-18Temperature 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.