Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 5:47 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bladen County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 15, 2:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 225 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995 RAH AND CAE: FCSTS LOOK PRETTY GOOD. DISC: MCC OVER W TN WILL MOVE SE AND OUTFLOW MAY AFFECT ILM CWA TONIGHT. THERE ARE A FEW NEGATING FACTORS...SUCH AS DAYTIME HEATING LOSS...AND LACK OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. NGM SEEMS TO MAKE UP MORE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE THAN ETA OVER CENTRAL SC THAN ETA FOR 00Z THIS EVENING. TEMPS LOOK GOOD TONIGHT...EXCEPT FOR WIND...lTHERE MAY BE A LITTLE FOG TOWARDS MORNING. RE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 15, 5:17 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
513 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995
TIME EVENT
450 PM DUPLIN COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN LYMAN
450-500 PM DUPLIN COUNTY...DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING GROUND
IN THE CHINQUAPIN AREA (2 INCHES DEEP)
CGLocal storm report, May 15, 5:20 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
518 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995
TIME EVENT
505 PM DUPLIN COUNTY...1/2 INCH HAIL IN KENNANSVILLE
LASTED SEVERAL MINUTES...NOT COVERING GROUND BUT
NOTICABLE AMOUNTS ON GROUND.
BTLocal storm report, May 15, 5:27 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
526 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995
TIME EVENT
525 PM DUPLIN COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS
REPORTED AT ROSE HILL
BTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 41 min |
| May 15, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 68 min |
| May 15, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 51 min |
| May 15, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 48 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.