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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 28, 1994Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1994, 1:02 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1994, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1994, 1:42 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Bladen County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1142 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, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
1142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 9:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMCraven, Pamlico62 min
Jul 28, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender49 min
Jul 28, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMOnslow50 min
Jul 28, 6:49 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCraven, Pamlico41 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.