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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

January 2, 2006Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2006, 11:15 PM EST for Brunswick County, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
Jan 2, 2006, 11:15 PM EST (04:15 UTC)
Expired
Jan 2, 2006, 11:45 PM EST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brunswick County, NC, New Hanover County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 00:00Z on 2006-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 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 00:00Z on 2006-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 314 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-303 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 11:26 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM49 min
Jan 2, 11:58 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM32 min
Jan 2, 10:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen, Columbus, Pender25 min
Jan 2, 10:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen19 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.