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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 15, 1995Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 6:42 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1995, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Brunswick County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILM 152243
SVRILM
NCC019-152330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
642 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN BRUNSWICK COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO EASTERN BRUNSWICK
COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. THIS
THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF LELAND...
SOUTHPORT AND ALL COASTAL COMMUNITES OD BRUNSWICK COUNTY.
THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM....TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS
PATH. LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS SMALL
TORNADOES.

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, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 18 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, 1 hour 25 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)

CG

Local storm report, May 15, 5:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 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.

BT

Local storm report, May 15, 5:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 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

BT

Local storm report, May 15, 6:14 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
526 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995

TIME                 EVENT

535 PM              DUPLIN COUNTY...3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY WALLACE
                    PD IN TOWN OF WALLACE

BT

Local storm report, May 15, 6:25 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
625 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995

TIME                 EVENT

550 PM              ONSLOW COUNTY...MARBLE TO DIME SIZE HAIL 5W OF
                    HOLLY RIDGE. REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.

RVT

The 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, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	58 min
May 15, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995 Every 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.