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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2022, 5:48 AM EST for Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 87 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
- Jan 3, 2022, 5:48 AM EST (10:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2022, 7:15 AM EST
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 8:07 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 16 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:10 AM EST | Storm Warning | ILM | 9 hr | |
| Jan 3, 3:13 AM EST | Wind Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 11 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 61 min |
| Jan 3, 12:05 PM EST | Gale Warning | ILM | 6 hr | |
| Jan 3, 6:29 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | ILM | 15 hr | |
| Jan 3, 5:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Marlboro, Williamsburg | 65 min |
| Jan 3, 10:24 AM EST | River Flood Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 23 hr |
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.