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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

March 27, 2021Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2021, 7:49 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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: Mar 27, 2021, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1099 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

820 
WUUS52 KILM 272349
SVRILM
NCC017-280015-
/O.NEW.KILM.SV.W.0003.210327T2349Z-210328T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wilmington NC
749 PM EDT Sat Mar 27 2021

The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Bladen County in southeastern North Carolina...

* Until 815 PM EDT.

* At 749 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Ammon, or 13
  miles northeast of Elizabethtown, moving east at 35 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind 
           damage to trees and power lines.

* Locations impacted include...
  Ammon.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3484 7849 3483 7847 3481 7846 3481 7845
      3477 7843 3475 7839 3473 7839 3472 7838
      3470 7837 3469 7835 3467 7834 3472 7860
      3485 7858 3485 7852 3486 7850
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 284DEG 32KT 3480 7851 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

IGB

1 follow-up statement

709 
WWUS52 KILM 280008
SVSILM

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wilmington NC
808 PM EDT Sat Mar 27 2021

NCC017-280018-
/O.EXP.KILM.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-210328T0015Z/
Bladen NC-
808 PM EDT Sat Mar 27 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BLADEN COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 815 PM EDT...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire.

LAT...LON 3484 7849 3483 7847 3481 7846 3481 7845
      3477 7843 3475 7839 3473 7839 3472 7838
      3470 7837 3469 7835 3467 7834 3472 7860
      3485 7858 3485 7852 3486 7850
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 284DEG 32KT 3476 7832 

$$

IGB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 3:24 AM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	ILM		8 hr
Mar 27, 6:21 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ILM	Robeson	4 hr
Mar 27, 3:14 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	ILM		41 hr
Mar 27, 3:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender	56 min
Mar 27, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	47 min
Mar 27, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	58 min
Mar 27, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	25 min
Mar 27, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Hoke	23 min
Mar 27, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	32 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.