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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 14, 2023Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2023, 2:07 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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 14, 2023, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2023, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 1:48 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:48 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 10:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 12:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:26 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	23 min
Jul 14, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILM	Bladen	48 min
Jul 14, 1:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen	3 hr
Jul 14, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	34 min
Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	25 min
Jul 14, 2:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Pender	96 min
Jul 14, 2:19 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover	8 hr
Jul 14, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Pender	36 min
Jul 14, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	New Hanover	61 min
Jul 14, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Bladen	58 min
Jul 14, 3:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	110 min
Jul 14, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	55 min
Jul 14, 4:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Columbus, Robeson	115 min
Jul 14, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus, Robeson	61 min
Jul 14, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Horry	57 min
Jul 14, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marion	34 min
Jul 14, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Marlboro	51 min
Jul 14, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Horry	28 min
Jul 14, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry, Marion	47 min
Jul 14, 6:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Marlboro	2 hr
Jul 14, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Marlboro	39 min
Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	56 min
Jul 14, 6:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILM	Florence, Horry, Marion	3 hr
Jul 14, 7:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILM	Florence, Marion, Williamsburg	3 hr

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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.