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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 24, 1995Florence County, Williamsburg County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1995, 6:18 PM EDT for Florence County, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1995, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Florence County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 1995-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2044 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 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
2044 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarlboro54 min
Jul 24, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown, Horry55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.