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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 24, 2015Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2015, 5:28 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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, 2015, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2015, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 3:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:50 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
450 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

SCZ023-032-242115-
FLORENCE-DARLINGTON-
450 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN FLORENCE AND
SOUTHWESTERN DARLINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 448 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER OATS...OR 8 MILES
SOUTH OF HARTSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TIMMONSVILLE...LAMAR...CARTERSVILLE...OATS AND LYDIA.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 126 AND 138.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3420 8011 3423 8011 3427 8014 3428 8013
      3429 8015 3434 8002 3414 7983 3406 8002
      3408 8003 3409 8008 3410 8010 3411 8010
      3413 8013 3416 8016
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 333DEG 10KT 3425 8008

MORGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 3:46 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson	28 hr
Jun 24, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	60 min
Jun 24, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	55 min
Jun 24, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, New Hanover	54 min
Jun 24, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Darlington	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.