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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 27, 2015Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 12 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: Jun 27, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2015, 3:12 PM EDT
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 1200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

916 
WFUS52 KILM 271900
TORILM
NCC019-047-271945-
/O.NEW.KILM.TO.W.0003.150627T1900Z-150627T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
300 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
  EAST CENTRAL COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
    
* AT 300 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
  OVER MAKATOKA...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF SHALLOTTE...AND MOVING EAST AT
  15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HONEY ISLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

IF A TORNADO OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER IS SPOTTED...
CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON AT 800-697-
3901. THIS ACT MAY SAVE LIVES OF OTHERS IN THE PATH OF DANGEROUS
WEATHER.

&&

LAT...LON 3411 7846 3420 7851 3428 7828 3416 7820
TIME...MOT...LOC 1900Z 258DEG 14KT 3416 7840 

$$

MBB

1 follow-up statement

560 
WWUS52 KILM 271912
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
312 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015

NCC019-047-271921-
/O.CAN.KILM.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150627T1945Z/
BRUNSWICK NC-COLUMBUS NC-
312 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BRUNSWICK AND EAST CENTRAL
COLUMBUS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3411 7846 3420 7851 3428 7828 3416 7820
TIME...MOT...LOC 1909Z 258DEG 14KT 3417 7835 

$$

MBB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	37 min
Jun 26, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	41 min
Jun 26, 8:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Pender	115 min
Jun 26, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	48 min
Jun 26, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	47 min
Jun 26, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	33 min
Jun 26, 9:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	61 min
Jun 26, 10:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	62 min
Jun 26, 10:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Pender, Robeson	3 hr
Jun 26, 11:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Robeson	114 min
Jun 26, 11:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILM	Bladen, Pender	3 hr
Jun 27, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	50 min
Jun 27, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	32 min
Jun 27, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	24 min
Jun 27, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	43 min
Jun 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	31 min
Jun 27, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	37 min
Jun 27, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	29 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.