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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 24, 2013Dillon County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2013, 1:21 PM EDT for Dillon County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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 24, 2013, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2013, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 24, 10:18 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 10:18 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 3:30 AM EDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 12:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Marlboro	111 min
Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Dillon	42 min
Jun 24, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	52 min
Jun 24, 3:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Horry	56 min
Jun 24, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	61 min
Jun 24, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	62 min
Jun 24, 4:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Marion	2 hr
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	48 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Florence, Marion	3 hr
Jun 24, 5:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Florence	3 hr
Jun 24, 6:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Pender	118 min
Jun 24, 11:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	55 min
Jun 24, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	42 min
Jun 24, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	56 min
Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	10 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2013 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.