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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 28, 2005Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2005, 7:26 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2005, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brunswick County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 2005-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2005-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 282326
SVRILM
NCC019-290000-
/O.NEW.KILM.SV.W.0021.050528T2326Z-050529T0000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
726 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 723 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SOUTHPORT...OR OVER LONG
  BEACH...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   BALD HEAD ISLAND AROUND 735 PM...

MORE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AND AFFECT OTHER COMMUNITIES
IN THE WARNED AREA.

IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER OR WEATHER RELATED DAMAGE...REPORT IT
TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY THE
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON
NC.

LAT...LON 3400 7815 3383 7817 3382 7790 3393 7786

$$

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2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS52 KILM 282342
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
742 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

NCC019-290000-
/O.CON.KILM.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050529T0000Z/
BRUNSWICK NC-
742 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR
BRUNSWICK COUNTY...

AT 741 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BALD HEAD ISLAND...OR
10 MILES SOUTH OF CAROLINA BEACH...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

LAT...LON 3400 7815 3383 7817 3382 7790 3393 7786

$$

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000 
WWUS52 KILM 282358
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
759 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

NCC019-290009-
/O.EXP.KILM.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050529T0000Z/
BRUNSWICK NC-
759 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BRUNSWICK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 800 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 3400 7815 3383 7817 3382 7790 3393 7786

$$

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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.