Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2010, 7:43 PM EDT for Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 29, 2010, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2010, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 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 23:46 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marlboro | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Dillon | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marlboro | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Williamsburg | 28 min |
| Jun 29, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 58 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.