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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 28, 1995Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 1995, 12:42 AM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 1995, 12:42 AM EDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired
Oct 28, 1995, 1:25 AM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 00:00Z on 1995-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1699 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 00:00Z on 1995-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 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
1699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
5.8

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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
Oct 28, 12:01 AM EDTTornado WarningILMDillon, Marion44 min
Oct 28, 1:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMNew Hanover, Pender40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.