Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1995, 12:37 PM EDT for New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1995, 12:37 PM EDT (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 Jun 12, 9:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 67 min |
| Jun 12, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 33 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.