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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 11, 1995Horry County, South Carolina; Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 4:33 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina; Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbus County, NC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1429 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
1429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 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

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 Jul 11, 2:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SRVICE NEWPORT NC
215 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

WK CNVRGNC EVDNT ON 17Z SFC ANAL AND IN NE ON ADAP. OUTFLO FRM THIS
AM'S ACTVTY NO EVIDNT ON SFC ANAL OR ADAP...BUT CAN BE SEEN ON SAT
PIX AND 88D AS TSTMS THIS AFTN.  DCRSD STBLTY EVIDNT AFT TSTMS MOVD
THRU THIS MORN HAS REBNDD AGN FOR DCNT AFTN INSTBLTY. MSTR STL QUITE
EVDNT. AND BNDRS ABND. SHUD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TM. BLV BEST CHCS IN
SE AND NE THIS AFTN. 4-7H MEAN FLO WL PUSH TSTMS TO SSE THIS EVE.
S/WV EVDNT ON SAT PIX TO SWING THRU TNGT AND SHUD KP ACTVTY GOING
DURNG THE NGTTM HRS.

AFT THIS S/WV SWINGS THRU TNGT THIS WL ALLW HI PRES TO DOMINATE THE
AREA INTO EFP. WK LO LVL GRAD FOR VRBL WNDS...WL INCRS SUM THU AS
SFC HI BLDS TO OUR E. WUDNT RULE OUT ANY ACTVTY IN XTNDD PD AS LO
LVL FLO TURNS MR ELY.    CGG-G

.MHX...NONE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence44 min
Jul 11, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry42 min
Jul 11, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDillon, Marion53 min
Jul 11, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown, Williamsburg48 min
Jul 11, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown, Williamsburg54 min
Jul 11, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus49 min
Jul 11, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen40 min
Jul 11, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender54 min
Jul 11, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus44 min
Jul 11, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMNew Hanover36 min
Jul 11, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMNew Hanover46 min
Jul 11, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus, Robeson51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Severe 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.