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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Wilmington, NC

November 16, 2006Georgetown County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2006, 2:22 AM EST for Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 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, 2:22 AM EST (07:22 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2006, 3:15 AM EST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Georgetown County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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 Nov 16, 12:45 AM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 12:45 AM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 16, 12:18 AM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 16, 12:45 AM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 16, 1:50 AM EST, 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
150 AM EST THU NOV 16 2006

SCZ017-024-033-160745-
MARLBORO-DILLON-MARION-
150 AM EST THU NOV 16 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA...

AT 150 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF SOCIETY HILL TO LAKE
CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS MARLBORO...DILLON AND MARION
COUNTIES...THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH AND
VERY HEAVY RAIN...UP TO AN INCH IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.

COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE BENNETTSVILLE...DILLON...
MARION...MULLINS...BINGHAM...BLUE BRICK...BROWNSVILLE...CHAVISTOWN...
CLIO...DUNBAR...FLOYDALE AND FORK.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEING CLOSELY MONITORED AS THEY ARE VERY
NEAR SEVERE LIMITS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL ISSUE WARNINGS
SHOULD THESE THUNDERSTORMS INDEED STRENGTHEN.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 800 AM.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR
UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
WEATHER.GOV/ILM.

RJD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 16, 1:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	61 min
Nov 16, 1:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	54 min
Nov 16, 2:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	51 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

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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.