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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 22, 2012Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2012, 3:52 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 22 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 22, 2012, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2012, 4:14 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

471 
WUUS52 KILM 221952
SVRILM
NCC141-222045-
/O.NEW.KILM.SV.W.0064.120522T1952Z-120522T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
352 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PENDER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 347 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 NEAR
  ROCKY POINT...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF BURGAW...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
   BURGAW...
   MURRAY TOWN...
   WHITE STOCKING...

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 3468 7784 3453 7766 3439 7788 3449 7804
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 241DEG 12KT 3446 7789

$$

15

1 follow-up statement

097 
WWUS52 KILM 222014
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
414 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012

NCC141-222024-
/O.CAN.KILM.SV.W.0064.000000T0000Z-120522T2045Z/
PENDER NC-
414 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL PENDER COUNTY IS
CANCELED...

AT 413 PM EDT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS
WEAKENED...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED.

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 3468 7784 3453 7766 3439 7788 3449 7804
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 241DEG 12KT 3450 7781

$$

15

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	65 min
May 22, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	61 min
May 22, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	31 min
May 22, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	60 min
May 22, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	66 min
May 22, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	32 min
May 22, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	29 min
May 22, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	60 min
May 22, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus, Robeson	39 min
May 22, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	40 min
May 22, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	29 min
May 22, 3:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Pender	49 min
May 22, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	20 min
May 22, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	15 min

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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.