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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 15, 1996Florence County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 7:48 PM EDT for Florence County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1996, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1996, 8:40 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Florence County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 7:55 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 65Florence, SC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1996-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 860 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 1996-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Robeson60 min
Jun 15, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender60 min
Jun 15, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson42 min
Jun 15, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion63 min
Jun 15, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDillon49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.