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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 31, 2006New Hanover County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 31, 2006, 12:50 PM EDT for New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 31, 2006, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2006, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County New Hanover County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1452 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KILM 311650
TORILM
NCC129-311715-
/O.NEW.KILM.TO.W.0013.060831T1650Z-060831T1715Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1250 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN NEW HANOVER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1244 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SEAGATE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
   SMITH CREEK BY 1255 PM...
   WRIGHTSBORO BY 110 PM...

GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. SEEK
SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND
ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER OR WEATHER RELATED DAMAGE...REPORT IT
TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY THE
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON
NC.

LAT...LON 3416 7786 3422 7781 3436 7793 3428 7800
      3422 7796

$$

JAQ

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KILM 311714
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
112 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2006

NCC129-311722-
/O.EXP.KILM.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060831T1715Z/
NEW HANOVER NC-
112 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN NEW HANOVER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 115
PM EDT...

AT 111 PM EDT...THE STORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WHICH
PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

ALTHOUGH THE WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT...RAIN BANDS FROM 
TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ONSHORE THROUGH TONIGHT 
AND CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. BE ALERT TO 
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO 
ALL HAZARDS IN CASE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.

IF YOU OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER OR WEATHER RELATED DAMAGE...REPORT IT
TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY THE
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON
NC.

LAT...LON 3416 7786 3422 7781 3436 7793 3428 7800
      3422 7796

$$

JAQ/CRM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 30, 11:24 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	30 hr
Aug 31, 11:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick	32 min
Aug 31, 6:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick	26 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.