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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 5, 2006Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2006, 5:01 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 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
May 5, 2006, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 2006-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 394 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 2006-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence44 min
May 5, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion32 min
May 5, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry31 min
May 5, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson38 min
May 5, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen51 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.