Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2023, 3:39 AM EDT for Brunswick County, Columbus County, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 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
- Mar 27, 2023, 3:39 AM EDT (07:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2023, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 3:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 75 min |
| Mar 27, 3:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus, Pender | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 3:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 56 min | |
| Mar 27, 4:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 4:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILM | Columbus | 119 min |
| Mar 27, 4:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 4:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 2 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Dillon, Florence, Marion | 39 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.