Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2021, 8:47 AM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2021, 8:47 AM EDT (12:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2021, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Bladen County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:50 AM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Elizabethtown, NC | PICTURES RELAYED VIA TWITTER. |
| May 7, 8:51 AM EDT | HAIL 1 | Elizabethtown, NC | SEVERAL QUARTER SIZED HAIL STONES, BUT MOSTLY PEA SIZED TO HALF INCH SIZED HAIL. |
| May 7, 9:00 AM EDT | HAIL 2 | Elizabethtown, NC | PICTURE SHARED BY BROADCAST MEDIA OF HEN EGG SIZED HAIL IN ELIZABETHTOWN |
| May 7, 9:10 AM EDT | HAIL 1 | White Lake, NC |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
608 WUUS52 KILM 071247 SVRILM NCC017-071315- /O.NEW.KILM.SV.W.0019.210507T1247Z-210507T1315Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Wilmington NC 847 AM EDT Fri May 7 2021 The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Bladen County in southeastern North Carolina... * Until 915 AM EDT. * At 847 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Elizabethtown, moving east at 15 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. * Locations impacted include... Elizabethtown, Lagoon, Ruskin, White Lake and Bladen County Hospital. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. && LAT...LON 3460 7873 3474 7868 3469 7837 3449 7844 TIME...MOT...LOC 1247Z 283DEG 15KT 3464 7862 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ VAO
1 follow-up statement
898 WWUS52 KILM 071258 SVSILM Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Wilmington NC 858 AM EDT Fri May 7 2021 NCC017-071315- /O.CON.KILM.SV.W.0019.000000T0000Z-210507T1315Z/ Bladen NC- 858 AM EDT Fri May 7 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 AM EDT FOR CENTRAL BLADEN COUNTY... At 858 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Elizabethtown, moving east at 20 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Locations impacted include... Elizabethtown, Lagoon, White Lake and Bladen County Hospital. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. && LAT...LON 3460 7864 3473 7860 3469 7837 3451 7843 TIME...MOT...LOC 1258Z 270DEG 18KT 3463 7855 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ VAO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:47 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 20 hr | |
| May 7, 5:47 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 28 min | |
| May 7, 5:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 20 min | |
| May 7, 7:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 55 min |
| May 7, 8:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 32 min |
| May 7, 8:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 34 min |
| May 7, 8:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 64 min |
| May 7, 8:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 33 min |
| May 7, 9:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 25 min |
| May 7, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 47 min |
| May 7, 10:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 59 min |
| May 7, 10:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:41 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 49 min | |
| May 7, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 29 min | |
| May 7, 3:30 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 15 hr |
| May 7, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 31 min |
| May 7, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick | 61 min |
| May 7, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 37 min | |
| May 7, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | New Hanover | 20 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.