Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 8:04 PM EDT for Dillon County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 13, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 47 min |
| May 13, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 45 min |
| May 14, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 49 min |
| May 14, 12:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 43 min |
| May 14, 5:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Severe 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.