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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 27, 1994Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:29 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1994, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Sussex County, DE

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1111 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 UNKNOWN     BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR TIME OF OCCURRENCE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1027 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 1010 AM EDT BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR TIME OF OCCURRENCE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1027 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 1010 AM EDT BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1048 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

TIME           EVENT

1024 AM EDT   PASQUOTANK COUNTY-
              ELIZABETH CITY COAST GUARD AIR STATION REPORTED A WIND
              GUST TO 50 KNOTS WITH THEIR WIND OBSERVING EQUIPMENT.

DCH

Local storm report, Jun 27, 11:08 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1108 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

TIME           EVENT

1000 AM EDT    WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST OF CRESWELL...POWER LINES                 TIME           AND TREES DOWN. NO TREE DIAMETER SPECIFIED.                      APPROXIMATED   REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS.

DCH

Local storm report, Jun 27, 11:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1111 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994

 TIME        EVENT
 UNKNOWN     BEAUFORT COUNTY N.C. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
             THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 9:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Beaufort, Craven	61 min
Jun 27, 10:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin, Sampson	68 min
Jun 27, 11:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Beaufort, Craven	54 min
Jun 27, 12:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Duplin, Sampson	59 min
Jun 27, 12:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Beaufort	56 min
Jun 27, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	63 min
Jun 27, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Craven	58 min
Jun 27, 2:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Craven	63 min
Jun 27, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Carteret	57 min
Jun 27, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Kent, Sussex	60 min
Jun 27, 1:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Kent, Sussex	61 min
Jun 27, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Kent	63 min
Jun 27, 2:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Kent, Sussex	53 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.