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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2023, 3:08 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 9, 2023, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 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, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 839 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:35 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:05 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 12 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 76 min |
| Jul 9, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick, Pender | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 29 min | |
| Jul 9, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 48 min | |
| Jul 9, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 93 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.