Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2006, 1:21 AM EST for Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
- Nov 16, 2006, 1:21 AM EST (06:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2006, 2:15 AM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 11:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1039 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Nov 16, 12:45 AM EST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 12:45 AM EST, 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Nov 16, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 61 min |
| Nov 16, 2:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 51 min |
| Nov 16, 2:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 53 min |
| Nov 16, 9:35 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 85 min | |
| Nov 16, 11:00 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 2 hr | |
| Nov 16, 12:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 113 min | |
| Nov 16, 6:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 40 min |
| Nov 16, 6:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 18 min |
| Nov 16, 6:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 36 min |
| Nov 16, 9:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 39 min |
| Nov 16, 9:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 34 min |
| Nov 16, 11:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.