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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 22, 2006Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2006, 11:11 AM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
Apr 22, 2006, 11:11 AM EDT (15:11 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:12 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 22, 10:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 12:00Z on 2006-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2168 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 12:00Z on 2006-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
2168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 10:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry38 min
Apr 22, 11:33 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningILM57 min
Apr 22, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry25 min
Apr 22, 2:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningILM62 min
Apr 22, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMWilliamsburg31 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.