Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2024

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 30, 2024Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2024, 7:09 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
Aug 30, 2024, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2024, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
36 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), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1319 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 2024-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 6:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen52 min
Aug 30, 7:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMBladen87 min
Aug 30, 7:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2024Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.