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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Wilmington, NC

December 14, 2013Bladen County, Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 14, 2013, 5:46 PM EST for Bladen County, Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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
Dec 14, 2013, 5:46 PM EST (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Dec 14, 2013, 6:45 PM EST
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 2013-12-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 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 2013-12-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 265 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
440 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 14, 12:51 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM24 min
Dec 14, 4:05 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementILMFlorence25 min
Dec 14, 4:32 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementILMDillon28 min
Dec 14, 4:44 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM61 min
Dec 14, 5:39 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM66 min
Dec 14, 6:14 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM31 min
Dec 14, 6:39 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM66 min
Dec 14, 6:45 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningILM60 min
Dec 14, 5:13 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementILMRobeson62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2013Every 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.