Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 365
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2016, 10:14 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina; Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 10:14 PM EDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 11:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marlboro | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 12:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro and 1 more | 67 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender, Robeson | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 11:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 11 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.