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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 13, 2015Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2015, 11:48 AM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 13, 2015, 11:48 AM EDT (15:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2015, 12:11 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 876 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

678 
WFUS52 KILM 131548
TORILM
NCC017-131630-
/O.NEW.KILM.TO.W.0006.150713T1548Z-150713T1630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1148 AM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BLADEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 1230 PM EDT
    
* AT 1148 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 9
  MILES WEST OF HARRELLS...OR 15 MILES EAST OF ELIZABETHTOWN...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN BLADEN COUNTY.

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 3475 7839 3473 7839 3472 7838 3470 7837
      3469 7835 3467 7832 3463 7832 3461 7831
      3458 7826 3456 7825 3454 7827 3453 7827
      3450 7829 3472 7843 3475 7840
TIME...MOT...LOC 1548Z 309DEG 11KT 3469 7836 

$$

JDW

2 follow-up statements

391 
WWUS52 KILM 131556
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1156 AM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

NCC017-131630-
/O.CON.KILM.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-150713T1630Z/
BLADEN NC-
1156 AM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 PM EDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY...
    
AT 1156 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARRELLS...OR 16 MILES EAST OF ELIZABETHTOWN...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
EAST CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY.

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 3469 7835 3467 7832 3463 7832 3461 7831
      3458 7826 3456 7825 3454 7827 3453 7827
      3450 7829 3469 7839
TIME...MOT...LOC 1556Z 309DEG 11KT 3467 7833 

$$

JDW

059 
WWUS52 KILM 131611
SVSILM

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1211 PM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

NCC017-131620-
/O.CAN.KILM.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-150713T1630Z/
BLADEN NC-
1211 PM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER 
APPEARS TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THEREFORE THE WARNING 
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
PORTIONS OF BLADEN COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3469 7835 3467 7832 3463 7832 3461 7831
      3458 7826 3456 7825 3454 7827 3453 7827
      3450 7829 3469 7839
TIME...MOT...LOC 1610Z 309DEG 11KT 3464 7829 

$$

JDW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Pender	52 min
Jul 13, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	59 min
Jul 13, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	65 min
Jul 13, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	55 min
Jul 13, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		88 min
Jul 13, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	25 min
Jul 13, 1:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	2 hr
Jul 13, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	42 min
Jul 13, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	65 min
Jul 13, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		93 min
Jul 13, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	3 hr
Jul 13, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		95 min
Jul 13, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Brunswick	59 min
Jul 13, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	41 min
Jul 13, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	61 min
Jul 13, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		36 min
Jul 13, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		92 min
Jul 13, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Columbus	55 min
Jul 13, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		97 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.