Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2017, 8:17 PM EDT for Darlington County, Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 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 5, 2017, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 1233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Georgetown | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 36 hr | |
| Jun 5, 9:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Cumberland | 54 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.