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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 11, 2006Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2006, 5:50 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2006, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2006, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 138 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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 Jun 11, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 5:35 AM EDT, 12 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
535 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 2006

AMZ250-252-254-256-120945-
SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM-
CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM-
LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM-
MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM-
535 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE ADJACENT
COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AND THEN MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE
NORTHWEST TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE MAY MOVE ACROSS THE OFFSHORE WATERS OF
NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA LATER
TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST. SMALL
CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS MAY REDEVELOP DURING THIS TIME. PLEASE
REFER TO THE LATEST ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

MARINERS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE ROUGH SEAS AND HIGH WINDS EXPECTED
TO DEVELOP TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES BELOW 1NM AT TIMES AND WILL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING.

NCZ087-096-097-099>101-SCZ017-023-024-032>034-039-046-120945-
ROBESON-BLADEN-PENDER-COLUMBUS-BRUNSWICK-NEW HANOVER-MARLBORO-
DARLINGTON-DILLON-FLORENCE-MARION-HORRY-WILLIAMSBURG-GEORGETOWN-
535 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT. THE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO COME IN THE FORM OF
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. HEAVY RAIN WILL WILL ACCOMPANY
THESE STORMS WITH LOCALLY UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE.
FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS LIKELY WITH ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE MAY MOVE ACROSS THE OFFSHORE WATERS OF
NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA LATER
TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST. PLEASE REFER
TO THE LATEST ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED.

RJD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 5:46 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
546 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NW BENNETTSVILLE      34.68N 79.75W
06/11/2006                   MARLBORO           SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 9 AND HIGHWAY
            79.

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HAWKINS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarlboro51 min
Jun 11, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Columbus59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.