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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 10, 1995Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 4:53 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 1995, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Robeson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KILM 102053 RRA
SVRILM
NCC155-102145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
453 PM EDT MON JUL 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ROBESON COUNTY
 
AT 450 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES
NORTH OF LUMBERTON OR 2 MILES WEST OF ST PAULS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO
THE THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM
TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

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 10, 1:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 1:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SRVICE NEWPORT NC
154 PM EDT MON JUL 10 1995

RAH: SUGGEST 30 POPS OVR CWA THIS EVENING...20 PCNT CST OVRNGT...30
POP ON TUE...20 TUE NIGHT AND WED. TYPICAL SUMMER STUFF...THE 3-H`S.

CWF: LGT WND SPDS AGAIN THIS FCST PCKG. DIRS ARE A PAIN SO WL JUGGLE A
VRBL VS SSW FLO THRU THE PD. STRNGST WNDS CONT TO BE RIGHT ALG THE CST
DURING PRIME SEA BRZ TIME...SEE OMRMHX. NO BIG SURPRISE HERE OR IN THE
SCHEME OF THE CWF.

DISC: GETTING QUITE BUSY W/ MESOSCALE GENERATED CONVTN EARLY THIS AFTN.
MDLS STILL SIMILAR ON NW FLO ALF THRU 48 HRS. MONSTER RDG TRYING TO GET
TO E CST BUT TREND IS FOR SLOER PROGRESSION. 12Z MDLS KEEP SOME UVM OVR
CSTL AREAS DURING NOCTURNAL HRS SO MAY WANT TO KEEP SOME OVRNGT POPS
IN ALG THE CST INCLUDING OUTER BANKS. STNGST TSTMS WL LIKELY CROP UP
OVER EXTREME SE PART OF STATE PER PC-GRIDDED ETA & NGM DATA BUT ISOLTD
PULSE SVR (LIKE ILM HAS SEEN TDA) PSBL AGAIN TUE ANYWHERE IN ERN *NC
WITH WK VORT LOBES PASSING THRU IN WNW FLO.
.MHX...NONE.                                                RVT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 4:00 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
400 PM EDT MON JUL 10 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION...   STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION...

145 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    N OF MONKEY JUNCTION

150 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    CROSSWINDS SUBDIVISION

155 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    N OF MONKEY JUNCTION

215 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    .75 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    MONKEY JUNCTION

310 PM     11 N WILMINGTON          NC    .75 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   PENDER

SQI

Local storm report, Jul 10, 4:01 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
400 PM EDT MON JUL 10 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION...   STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION...

145 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    N OF MONKEY JUNCTION

150 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    CROSSWINDS SUBDIVISION

155 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    1.00 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    N OF MONKEY JUNCTION

215 PM     WILMINGTON               NC    .75 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   NEW HANOVER                    MONKEY JUNCTION

310 PM     11 N WILMINGTON          NC    .75 INCH HAIL
07/10/95   PENDER

SQI

Local storm report, Jul 10, 4:14 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
415 PM EDT MON JUL 10 1995

TIME      LOCATION            EVENT

406 PM    CARTERET CO         QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND TREES REPORTED
                              DOWN IN OTWAY AND BETTIE.

TK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	30 min
Jul 10, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	26 min
Jul 10, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	45 min

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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.