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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 10, 2010Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2010, 6:42 PM EDT for Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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 10, 2010, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2010, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 2010-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 145 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 2010-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 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
145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 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
Jun 10, 3:05 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryILM4 hr
Jun 10, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMMarlboro26 min
Jun 10, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen46 min
Jun 10, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMPender45 min
Jun 10, 5:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen26 min
Jun 10, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen25 min
Jun 10, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMRobeson23 min
Jun 10, 7:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMColumbus19 min
Jun 10, 7:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMColumbus18 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.