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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2009, 4:48 PM EDT for Dillon County, Florence County, Marion County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 9, 2009, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2009, 5:32 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Marion County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 9, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 559 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 AMZ250-252-254-256-101000- SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM- CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM- LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM- MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM- 559 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TSTMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT OVER THE WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. NCZ087-096-SCZ017-023-024-032-033-039-101000- ROBESON-BLADEN-MARLBORO-DARLINGTON-DILLON-FLORENCE-MARION- WILLIAMSBURG- 559 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 9AM. BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE FORECAST AREA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG WIND GUSTS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. NCZ099-101000- COLUMBUS- 559 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE FORECAST AREA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG WIND GUSTS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. NCZ097-100-101-SCZ034-046-101000- PENDER-BRUNSWICK-NEW HANOVER-HORRY-GEORGETOWN- 559 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE FORECAST AREA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG WIND GUSTS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:21 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro, Williamsburg | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marlboro | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2009Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.