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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 19, 1995Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 10:15 AM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1995, 10:15 AM EDT (14:15 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1995, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
45 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 14:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1665 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
9.3

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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, 9:57 AM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 9:57 AM EDT, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
953 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

RAH & CAE: FCST LUKS GD AS IS. NO CHGS NEEDED. CWF LUKS GD AS IS. WL
GO ALONG W/CAE & MHX ON THE RESPECITVE H2OS.

DISC...NOT MUCH TIME TO TALK. SVR WX ALRDY GOING OVER CWA ATTM. MRNG
SOUNDINGS SHOWING GD INSTABILITY FOR TDY. GD LOW LVL WNDS W/SME SHEAR
SHUD CONT TO GIVE THE ILM CWA PSBL SVR WX THRU THE AFTN HRS. WBZ VALUES
WERE BLO 10000 FT. THIS WUD INDICATE PSBL HAIL. SME RPRTS ALRDY OF THAT
OVR PRTNS OF CWA. GOTTA GO. GLAD I/VE GOT THE MUCH APPRCTD HELP TDY.

TRY TO HAVE A GREAT MRNG!.

JOE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 9:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarlboro53 min
May 19, 10:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDarlington68 min
May 19, 10:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDillon, Marlboro59 min
May 19, 11:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence59 min
May 19, 12:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion48 min
May 19, 1:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence, Marion58 min
May 19, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown, Williamsburg66 min
May 19, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry60 min
May 19, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown27 min
May 19, 9:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson48 min
May 19, 11:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson61 min
May 19, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Columbus62 min
May 19, 12:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender69 min
May 19, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBrunswick45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.