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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 19, 1995Marlboro County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 9:07 AM EDT for Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 9:07 AM EDT (13:07 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Marlboro County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 19, 1:36 AM EDT, 7 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 1:36 AM EDT, 7 hours 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 10:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington	68 min
May 19, 10:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon, Marlboro	59 min
May 19, 11:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence	59 min
May 19, 12:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marion	48 min
May 19, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	58 min
May 19, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Williamsburg	66 min
May 19, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	60 min
May 19, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	27 min
May 19, 9:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	48 min
May 19, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	45 min
May 19, 11:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	61 min
May 19, 11:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	62 min
May 19, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	69 min
May 19, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.