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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

February 24, 2016Bladen County, Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2016, 11:58 AM EST for Bladen County, Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: Feb 24, 2016, 11:58 AM EST (16:58 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2016, 12:45 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 24, 11:16 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 386 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

As transmitted.

571 
WUUS52 KILM 241658
SVRILM
NCC017-047-241745-
/O.NEW.KILM.SV.W.0002.160224T1658Z-160224T1745Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1158 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
  BLADEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 1245 PM EST

* AT 1158 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITEVILLE...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 80 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WHITEVILLE...ELIZABETHTOWN...ROWAN...LAKE WACCAMAW...LAGOON...REDBUG...
  COUNCIL...SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE...RUSKIN...HALLSBORO...
  ABBOTTSBURG...KELLY...AMMON...ELKTON...CARVERS...LISBON...EMERSON...
  BRUNSWICK...CLARKTON AND WHITE LAKE.

THIS INCLUDES US ROUTE 74 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 386 AND 408.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY
RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON...TOLL FREE AT 800 6 9 7  3901...WHEN
YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3484 7849 3480 7844 3477 7843 3475 7839
      3473 7839 3472 7838 3470 7837 3467 7832
      3463 7831 3463 7832 3461 7831 3455 7825
      3454 7827 3450 7825 3447 7819 3419 7865
      3434 7882 3485 7864 3485 7852 3486 7850
TIME...MOT...LOC 1658Z 216DEG 68KT 3438 7866 

$$

JDW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 8:01 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	29 min
Feb 24, 8:50 AM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	3 hr
Feb 24, 9:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	58 min
Feb 24, 10:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	58 min
Feb 24, 10:48 AM EST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	42 min
Feb 24, 11:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	63 min
Feb 24, 11:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	3 hr
Feb 24, 12:03 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	42 min
Feb 24, 1:26 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		64 min
Feb 24, 2:29 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		61 min
Feb 24, 3:43 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	ILM		62 min
Feb 24, 4:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	40 min
Feb 24, 4:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	65 min
Feb 24, 4:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Robeson	48 min
Feb 24, 5:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	46 min
Feb 24, 6:25 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Robeson	65 min

Nearby

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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.