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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 15, 2012Bladen County, Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2012, 1:22 PM EDT for Bladen County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 9 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: May 15, 2012, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2012, 1:31 PM EDT
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bladen County, NC, Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

809 
WUUS52 KILM 151722
SVRILM
NCC017-141-151800-
/O.NEW.KILM.SV.W.0045.120515T1722Z-120515T1800Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
122 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN PENDER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
  SOUTHEASTERN BLADEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 118 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF COUNCIL...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITEVILLE...
  AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
   COUNCIL...

MORE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AND AFFECT OTHER COMMUNITIES
IN THE WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS.

&&

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772...WHEN
YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3449 7814 3439 7825 3440 7826 3437 7833
      3438 7845 3442 7856 3460 7838
TIME...MOT...LOC 1722Z 208DEG 16KT 3425 7859

$$

BACON

1 follow-up statement

464 
WWUS52 KILM 151731
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
131 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

NCC017-141-151741-
/O.CAN.KILM.SV.W.0045.000000T0000Z-120515T1800Z/
BLADEN NC-PENDER NC-
131 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PENDER AND 
SOUTHEASTERN BLADEN COUNTIES HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ANOTHER WARNING IN 
EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM FOR BLADEN AND COLUMBUS COUNTIES...



PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772...WHEN
YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3449 7814 3439 7825 3440 7826 3437 7833
      3438 7845 3442 7856 3460 7838
TIME...MOT...LOC 1731Z 208DEG 16KT 3429 7857

$$

BACON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	54 min
May 14, 10:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	35 min
May 14, 10:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Brunswick	3 hr
May 14, 11:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	26 min
May 15, 12:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	58 min
May 15, 6:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	62 min
May 15, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	27 min
May 15, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	26 min
May 15, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	64 min
May 15, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	65 min
May 15, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	34 min
May 15, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	57 min
May 15, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	67 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.