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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 1, 1995Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1995, 3:13 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 1995, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 1995-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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 1995-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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 
WUUS1 KILM 011916 RRA
SVRILM
NCC141-012015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
313 PM EDT SAT JUL 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...PENDER COUNTY
 
AT 310 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL
PENDER COUNTY...BETWEEN BURGAW AND ROCKY POINT. THE STORMS ARE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 415 PM.
 
STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LIGHTNING KILLS.
 
THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM MAY ALSO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND UNDERPASSES.
 
 
RE

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 Jul 1, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 5:02 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, New Hanover58 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.